Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...races this year the Crimson and Tech have each defeated the other by a margin of two feet, so that tomorrow's tilt will serve as a rubber match for the two. In addition, Harvard was hard pressed to beat Princeton by four feet last weekend, and at the same time Penn came within two feet of upsetting the Engineers. Only Columbia seems out of the running...
...seen. The jumps, longer distances, hammer and javelin throws appear to be the only events the Crimsons have a chance to win. Comparative scores prove Shepard's theory since the Yale men swamped Andover 86-40 while Harvard could only trail the prep school in last week's triangular tilt...
...with it was any man's guess. A good sign was G.M.'s prompt promise to make any final agreement retroactive to April 28, and the union's prompt acceptance of the board's proposal to keep work in all G.M. plants going at full tilt. Conciliator James Dewey, already on the scene, was urged to continue his labors until a delegation from the board could sit down with the disputants. Said the board to Dewey: "By so doing you will contribute not only to national defense but to the relief of this willing but sadly...
...thoughts of rearranging the personel within a shell will have to wait until after tomorrow's tilt with the gray-bladed Engineers, since it would be practically impossible to upset both crews at this late date and expect as smooth a performance as might be delivered by on of the eights rowing as a unit...
...bourgeois culture." "I confess," he wrote in The Christian Century, "that between Versailles and Munich I underwent a conversion which involved rejection of almost all the liberal theological ideals and ideas with which I first ventured forth. My first book contains almost all the windmills against which today I tilt." In the light of history, especially from 1920 to 1940, he finds liberal optimism about the goodness of man untenable. Therefore he has set out to formulate a firmer faith in God based on much less faith in his fellow...