Word: save
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Twelve members of the Brown band were unceremoniously booed out of the Radcliffe quadrangle last night after a short, impromptu serenade. After the cool reception, the ragged little band retreated playing "Eternal Father Strong to Save...
World War III? Partial, unadmitted intervention would have some advantages in Chinese eyes. It might serve to protect the great Yalu River power dams (see map) from which Manchuria draws electric power for its factories. It might save face for the Communists in Asia, might prevent the U.N. from creating a stable, anti-Communist nation on China's borders. It would surely profit the U.S.S.R. which would be delighted to see U.S. energies drained by a long Asian...
...loaded the bases with two out. Lou Gehrig was on first, Bob Meusel on second, Earle Combs on third, and slugging Tony Lazzeri was up. Pete ambled sleepily to the mound, took a couple of warm-up throws and struck Lazzeri out on three pitches, went on to save the St. Louis lead and win the World Championship. Later, Pete reminisced about his second pitch to Lazzeri, which Lazzeri had hit whistling down the third-base line-barely foul. Said he: "A foot made the difference between being a hero...
First, the audience got to its feet for a robust Star-Spangled Banner and a dignified God Save the King. Then, for two hours, the music lovers watched Sir Thomas, one of the most graphic conductors of them all, play his perfectly disciplined orchestra like an organ. They heard great music played to the hilt with an unmistakably British accent...
...penury, lunching off a roll of bread, attending science school with only one battered collar (made of celluloid and washed every night) between him and ignominy. All that sustained him, and continued to do so until his last, embittered years, was the passionate belief that knowledge alone could save mankind, and that consequently "the final decision as to the fate of life on our planet depends today upon man's own will...