Word: tying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fraternities are organized on a broad national level, affiliated with brother groups. A fraternity can lose these valuable affiliations if it deviates. When Amherst's Phi Kappa Psi strayed last year by electing a Negro, it was promptly cut off from its national tie...
Unfortunately some Harvard students are harder to please. Large numbers are hoping for Jeep exhaust pipes, a new carburetor, a metal top, or a radio for their cars. Other much-wanted items, which are more likely to be found, are sweaters, cigarette cases, cufflinks, tie clasps, scarves, socks, good books, and neckties...
Back home in South Dakota after the war, rugged, curly-haired Joe Foss, the Marine Corps' top South Pacific air ace, found politicking almost as simple as a wingover and just as much fun. Everyone remembered that he had been the first U.S. flyer to tie Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record by shooting down 26 Japs over Guadalcanal. In 1948, Minnehaha County elected him overwhelmingly to the state house of representatives...
...freshman match was one-sided, with the Crimson taking all but one contest in straight sets. In the one closely fought '53 match, it was the MIT player who came from behind to tie the Crimson man before losing in the fifth...
David Brown, high man for the Crimson finished in a third place tie for individual honors, scoring 94 out of 100 points. The individual shooting was won by Army...