Word: top
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday, Eliot will meet Yale's Davenport College in the top contest of the inter-college meetings. Davenport, like Eliot, works its attack from a T formation but has turned in low scores all year...
Although Eliot House has been rolling up high scores all season, the other House teams have been in the lower scoring range, with line play the key factor in the top bracketed team's favor...
...watching $50,0000 or more go up in smoke. Cagey Ballet Importer Sol Hurok had cautiously limited the Sadler's Wells tour to four weeks in Manhattan and five on the road, and had set Manhattan ticket prices, except for opening night, at a fainthearted $4.20 top. As it turned out, tickets became almost as hard to come by as an aisle seat for South Pacific ($6 plus scalper...
Actually, for the past month, young Field and "Pete" Akers had been acting as top dogs without benefit of top titles. Field had long fretted that the morning and evening editions of the Sun-Times looked too much alike: there was little reason for anyone to buy both. Now he had started out to make them look as different as possible...
...trouble was that Rexall's expansion program had been badly timed. Older, smaller stores had been closed up before the big new superstores could be opened. On top of that, many a small store was sold at a heavy loss simply to get rid of it while the new ones cost far more to build and operate than was expected...