Word: reverted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attempting to spot the Yale offensive pattern for this week is a risky business. The Elis installed a completely now cycle of plays against Princeton last Saturday; the difference between Harvard's banged-up line and Princeton's powerful one is enough to cause Hickman to revert to straight running if the occasion offers...
...light and smooth approach to show off its classical symmetry; the second had to have an almost completely opposite interpretation for its rhythmically and tonally restive nature; the Brahms quartet, being late romantic, required thick texture for its heavy Germanic style; and for Schubert the players had to revert to a light and delicate style to express the tunefulness of the composer...
Edger W. Davis, Engineer for the City of Cambridge, yesterday stated that the present rotary experiment would continue "for at least 30 days." If after that time, however, the situation remains snafu, the Planning Board will temporarily revert to the old helter-skelter routing system...
...debts to U.S. banks, once over $300 million, had been cut to half that figure, would henceforth be systematically reduced by applying against the debt one-fifth of the dollars the U.S. pays for Argentine goods. To stimulate U.S. trade, imports & exports hitherto state-traded would be allowed to revert to private hands. Most important of all, Argentina would sell its crop surpluses at going world prices, instead of charging all that the traffic would bear. Jim Bruce felt that his mission had begun to bear fruit...
...this point, Novelist Moon begins to favor an uncompromising thesis. He makes Editor Thornton, in demanding that Gardner be fired, revert to stereotyped white brutality, and he makes President Rogers seem culpably weak for giving in. The thesis: Editor Thornton's liberalism has never been much more than a way of satisfying his own vanity, and Rogers' lifelong effort to educate his race has actually-and even consciously-played into the hands of the segregators...