Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan rates Cornell equal to any team that his club has faced this year, including Holy Cross, on the basis of films he saw of Cornell's victory over Colgate. He said a game between the Big Red and Holy Cross would be a "toss up" at best...
...last week went before the Iranian Senate and announced an ultimatum to London: he would give the British two weeks to reopen the suspended oil negotiations on Iran's old terms. Alternative: he would cancel the residence permits of 300 British technicians still hanging on at Abadan, and toss them out of the country. The Senators endorsed the Premier...
Take all this as a roundup of a fairly, agreeable sports picture, toss in a world's champion (Dick Button) and a national junior champion (Dudley Richards) figure skater, then multiply the record of an amateur football team by a hundred, and it adds up to a decline in Harvard athletics. That's the formula today.The Cambridge crew beat the Crimson by 1 1/2 lengths on the Charles last April, but the Harvard varsity eight came back to lead a clean sweep over Yale at the end of June...
Justice William O. Douglas, who had 23 ribs cracked when his horse fell on him two years ago, had another horse kick him in the shin last year, arrived in New Delhi after a hike through the Himalayan mountains. The record this time: one toss from a frisky yak, two falls from a mule. Damage: a sprained wrist, an aching back...
Space Doctors. Students of such unearthly fields as comparative planetary biology and bioclimatology, the scientists explain that, given the money and materials they need, they could toss a rocket full of passengers to Venus or to Mars. But the odds are that vegetation (if any) on those planets would provide no sustenance, and that the temperatures and pressures would be unbearable for earthlings. So the astrophysicists, and the ordnance experts, and the doctors of space medicine* deal with the somewhat more probable-the multi-stage rockets which they would like to use as artificial, man-carrying satellites...