Word: deadlocker
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Since this victory left Standish and Company C in a first place deadlock, the two teams decided to hold the playoff immediately rather than risk having the second tournament go into the books as a tie. After a 20 minute intermission, the two quintets plunged into the final and crucial battle. This time it was Standish's turn to take the lead, which they did after a rapid exchange of baskets at the start. And as Hull had dominated the play in the first game, so Dick Firth put the civilians out in front in the nightcap. Play remained rough...
...last week predicted that his team would get 41 points against Exeter (final score, Harvard 41, Exeter 13) again did some pre-meet paper work, adding a point here, subtracting one there, and finally reaching the conclusion that the meet would wind up in a 27 to 27 deadlock...
Company C threw a monkey wrench into the Intramural basketball competition by defeating Lowell Wednesday afternoon to produce another three-way deadlock for the winning spot of the winter's first tournament. While Company C, Companies F-G, and the Bellboys face a play-off in the last throes of one intramural series, the second tournament has already begun...
...slow and inconclusive on the ground. In some places the Germans attacked, won back a few mountain positions from the Fifth Army; in others the Allies attacked, won a few hundred yards from the Germans. The net result was still deadlock in months-old positions...
...battle, Lord Swinton fought a rear-guard action under cover of the five freedoms. Complaining that the freedoms, as drawn, were too favorable to the U.S., he blocked any agreement. (One British delegate talked bitterly of "the freedom to strangle small nations.") In a final attempt to end this deadlock last week, Berle, who resigned as Assistant Secretary of State this week (see U.S. AT WAR), presented a "take it or leave it" version of the freedoms...