Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Graduation took a heavy toll from Harvard. Gone are goalie Bruce Durno, a starter for three years, and the forward line of Joe Cavanagh, Dan DeMichele, and Steve Owen, a line that led the Crimson in scoring for three years. Also gone is All-American, all-everything Cavanagh's presence on the power play and penalty-killing. For Cavanagh was also the backbone of the defense as well as the offense...
...while Gambril's presence may attract more top swimmers, it could take its toll on Harvard veterans who aren't willing to make the sacrifice Gambril intends to demand. He says he will be "very disappointed if at time Harvard can't rank in the top ten in the nation." In view of Gambril's record, it won't be long before disappointment at Harvard is a thing of the past...
There was not any direct revenue to be gathered. Broadcasters operated on a shoestring--the medium was not expected to pay for itself, but to increase equipment sales. When the AT & T chain tried to institute a time-toll system of broadcasting (more out of laziness than greed), it was left with empty air-time: advertisers had neither the knowledge or studios to produce their own programs. In fact, the British broadcasting plan, by which a tax on radio equipment provided a broadcasting fund, was seriously debated for American broadcasting through the spring of 1923. Because of hostilities between radio...
...Warehousemen's Union (I.L.W.U.) have continued to unload passenger ships and move both war materiel bound for Viet Nam and relief supplies for East Pakistan. Even so, the strike has already caused delays and inconvenience for millions of U.S. businessmen and their customers-and taken a heavy financial toll of many of them. Shipowners lose as much as $10,000 a day for each idle vessel. In California alone, the cost of the strike has exceeded $1 billion...
Last week's incidents brought the three-week death toll to 30. The tough "provisional" wing of the I.R.A. admitted responsibility for the electricity-board bombing and claimed it had given the board's management time to evacuate all employees. But to the firebrand Protestant extremist...