Word: concoction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dunster can concoct a few scoring plays with Moe Pearlstein's passes it might win its first game against a Kirkland House team which has won only one contest. Kirkland will be favored however, because of its potent single wing offense which should wear down the light Dunster line...
...Concoction. "It was more or less an accident," Holt once said, "that I became a college president." The son of a Manhattan judge, he had begun as a journalist, for eight years was editor and owner of the magazine Independent. With William Howard Taft he helped found, in 1915, the League to Enforce Peace, ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1924. He still found time to concoct a few theories on what a modern college should be. In 1925, Rollins gave him a chance to try them...
...some of its boldness, impudence and razor-keen sense of what the public wanted had died in 1946 with Founder Joe Patterson. To some longtime News readers, it seemed as though the paper had lost the exact formula for Patterson's magic elixir, and was trying to concoct a substitute. Manhattan newshounds speculated that the editors were even poring over old files in search of the missing ingredient...
Sixty-one students, five of whom were not in attendance at Harvard during the fall term, failed to register. Late registrants must make their presence known with the Registrar's office and unless they concoct brilliant excuses they face disciplinary action, most probably in the form of a fine, at the Dean's Office...
...secret session of the Cominform in Sofia last month, Communist leaders spent an entire day discussing Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, 56, Prince Primate of Hungary. The decision to arrest him had already been made; it remained to concoct just the right charges...