Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fullback Jerry Glynn scored first on a short plunge in the second period, and three minutes later end Joe Eaton caught a 20-yard touchdown pass from Sam Fordyce. At the end of the third quarter, tailback Willie Thompson drove over for the final score. Jacques Winter booted three perfect extra points...
Playing on Tech's abbreviated field, the varsity was unable to open up the game with its short passing attack until the fourth quarter, when MIT's lack of condition began to tell...
...such action would fall miserably short of its goal in the long run. Israel would not wither and die. Instead, the new state would cast about for allies, and finding Soviet Russia eager to expand its sphere of influence, would accept Russian economic and military aid. With this rapprochement between Israel and the Soviet completed, American and British statesmen could congratulate themselves on moving their enemy some 800 miles closer to the Suez Canal...
...calmer businessmen recalled that it was a Democratic Congress which had let OPA die, that President Truman had approved the repeal of the wartime excess-profits tax in 1945, and that wage boosts were bound to come anyway, as long as business and profits were so good. In short, they hoped that the Democratic bark would be worse than Congress' bite...
Small Bite? In short, many businessmen flatly disagreed with Wall Street's interpretation of what was going to happen. Some of them...