Word: less
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter claims that desirable debate assignments, such as Ivy League debates, go to "a few members of the executive committee especially the president, his friends, and his roommates," while harder working members are given less desirable debates...
Instead of working with his customary forward-line arrangement. Coach Chase has completely shufiled his linemen to provide three combinations of more or less equal strength. In the first period the best two of these lines produced three goals. But for the rest of the game the plan didn't work: each line constantly revealed its understandable lack of co-ordination, and this, coupled with several severe defensive lapses and a sub-par game by goalie Johnny Chase, cost Harvard the game...
Brown carried its domination into the third period, but on a slightly less spectular scale. A short shot by Dick Brown caught the left side of the Crimson nets at 3:52, and later, at 17:11, when Coach Chase had five forwards on the ice, Git Priestley broke through alone on goalie Chase...
...freezer; in Milwaukee, a furniture store offered a free airplane ride with every $50 purchase. In Denver, a used-car dealer gave every purchaser a second car for i?. House builders, who had yawned at any request for a house under $20,000, hustled to turn them out at less than $15,000. And as buyers depleted stocks, production was forced up again with a rush...
...worth. For all its gaudily costumed corn, The King's Cavalier is built on a solid base of research which pays off in such things as a manor house painstakingly reconstructed right down to the canopied fireplaces and the perfume pastilles. Readers who find the dialogue less convincing will nevertheless have to admit that it can sometimes be mighty engaging...