Word: races
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans have more than once shown our mettle. We must convince our leaders that we are not afraid to face facts and work and sacrifice if need be to preserve our nation and invigorate our championship of the free world before the Russians win the space race, the cold war and the allegiance of the uncommitted nations...
...that the Administration should be attacked in one of the few cases in which it shows any long-range foresight-the refusal to be stampeded into pouring useless billions into a worthless space race. If the American people want space superiority, they obviously can't get it for nothing; $10 billion a year will have to come from a reduction in defense weaponry or constructive welfare appropriations, or from a 20% increase in taxation...
Once again in the scrambled Ivy League race, the Crimson football team enters a game with a definite chance for the League title. This afternoon at 1:30 in Soldiers Field the varsity, in its most important game to date, takes on a slightly favored Princeton eleven...
...varsity can ill afford to lose Fitzgerald. His inspirational performances before he was hurt in the Dartmouth race bolstered the entire squad. Winter track will be considerably less exciting if he does not return in time...
...weeks ago coach Steve Sebo of the then-unbeaten Penn football team told a press conference, "The Ivy League is too well balanced to feel safe at any time. The race is just as close as the next game...