Word: point
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necessarily a form of sin or even frivolity and that a possible valid reason for pursuing this or that branch of knowledge was merely that they were interested in it.... I could see that I was thought to be expounding what is vaguely thought of as the 'European' point of view-at best something exotic and over-refined, at worst cynical and slightly sinister...
...Harvard ranked second in the intercollegiate squash league while Yale and Princeton, the only teams that defeated the Crimson, sandwiched the local team on the squash ladder. The team's success in recent years is due largely to the guiding hand of coach Barnaby, who has followed a two point program for building bigger and better squash teams...
...Hoar, captain of the Freshman squad last year relies chiefly on power for his points and his hard service is the high point of his game...
President Truman's Point Four, which provides for aid to backward parts of the world, can be carried too far, John Fletcher-Cooke, British delegate to the United Nations, said at last night's Dunster Forum on "The Problem of the Emergent Peoples...
...first two minutes of last night's Blockhouse game with Boston University the freshman basketball team looked as though it were going to hand the game to BU. But after this sloppy opening the Yardlings settled down, grabbed a 12 point half time lead, and kept the highly publicized Terriers panting along behind them, and finished with a 56 to 48 victory...