Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...share of weather and upsets. At Columbus, Ohio, in the face of 30-m.p.h. winds and blinding snow, Michigan was unable to manage even one first down, but did manage to skid past Ohio State, 9-3. Illinois, with its bags half packed for a Rose Bowl trip, was frozen out of the journey and the Big Ten title by Northwestern, 14-7. Though once tied and thrice beaten, Michigan, as conference champions, will go to the Rose Bowl. Michigan's opponent: unbeaten California, which had its record only slightly marred by Stanford...
...usually well-informed circles,' and there is something very striking about the phrase. The choice of adverb is peculiarly pregnant, contriving as it does simultaneously to affirm faith and to adumbrate doubt. It implies that the correspondent has found these circles to be reliable in the past, but it sounds at the same time a note of caution. 'You know what these foreigners are,' it seems to say; 'don't blame me if they've got hold of the wrong end of the stick this time...
People who live near Muroc, Calif. are used to seeing strange sights in the sky as test pilots from Edwards Air Force Base put new planes through their paces. For the past month they have seen a fearsome thing: roaring yellow flames streaking across the night, sometimes rocketing upward to mingle with the stars...
Evangelist Squire, who has made 15 trips to the Continent in the past two years, will soon head for Berlin to find other young people for his institute. Says he: "We've only begun to fight for Christianity behind the Iron Curtain...
...past five months, said O'Conor, no less than 14,373 tons of materials useful in war-steel products, scrap rubber, transformers, motors, fire engines-had been carried to China from U.S. ports and from occupied Japan. Most of the shipments, O'Conor pointed out, were technically legal, since many of the products were not specifically banned for export. But some shipments, even though legal, were plain dodges of U.S. and Japanese export controls...