Word: lopsidedness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Partly off-setting the lopsided score on the gridiron, the Band scored a kind of moral victory over the Princetons. Filling silently into the main quadrangle at 6 a.m. Saturday morning, the Band members stopped in front of Blair Hall and began to play "Harvardiana."
The present slanted situation began in 1912 when the sidewalk between Gore and Standish Halls was first built. The underlying land was a marsh at that time, and once the heavy sidewalk was laid, it immediately began to settle on a lopsided angle.
Stacks of mail were coming to Congressmen, demanding that something be done about rising prices. Like a scared herd, they reacted first in chaos and confusion (TIME, Aug. 14); then almost by stampede, as Administration leaders cracked the whip over them. The House, which had ineffectually tried the week before...
Four hours later, the Senate kept it in by the same lopsided vote, and Pat McCarran confidently predicted that the House would do the same.
For all its lopsided plot and sketchy characterization, Author Abrahams' discovery of profound trails of meaning in the tragic Boer trek makes Wild Conquest outstanding in the year's crop of historical novels.