Word: recoverable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With many fine eights entered for the Thames Cup, England was hoping to recover a trophy which in the previous seventeen Regattas had been won fifteen times by Americans. In both this event and in the Grand, it seemed that Oxford's Isis crews were the outstanding threat to the...
"Nothing Bothers Me." Little in Pitcher Sherry's background hinted that he would ever make the World Series, let alone allow just one run in 12⅔ innings for a startling earned-run average of .71. Son of a Los Angeles dry cleaner, Sherry was born with clubfeet, did...
It is more than likely that he did not understand himself. Writing his Memoirs, near 70, he wryly discussed the illness "which the Italians call mal français." Wrote he, sounding puzzled: "The greatest part of my life was spent in trying to make myself ill, and when I...
Regardless of the merits of his legal arguments, there are several objections to the test-case procedure. As Howe himself has admitted, the government might not sue to recover the misallocated funds; it might merely refuse to grant Harvard any additional money. Secondly, University officials could conceivably be prosecuted for...
Dramatic Success. Namru-2 scored one of its most striking successes in fighting cholera outbreaks in East Pakistan and Thailand. Drugs are of little value against the disease, which kills mainly by causing a tremendous loss of body fluids; in the acute diarrhea stage, as much as four gallons may...