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...before the team arrived in Colorado, the temperatures hung around the mid-70s during the day. The day of their first game and the days of all the games had highs in the 20s. There was snow, and the fields were rock hard. The only consolation may be that next year's tournament will be in North Carolina...
...daytime temperatures on the weekend hung somewhere in the mid-20s, and it even snowed a little bit before and during the game with Cortland. Crimson keeper Ann Diamond was so cold after the game's 30th minute that she had to be replaced by Janet Judge, a converted midfielder...
...Harvard women's soccer team braved temperatures in the mid 20s and a rock-hard field to scoot past the University of Northern Colorado, 3-1, yesterday afternoon in the opening round of the National Intercollegiate women's soccer championships in Colorado Springs...
They share several other traits, too. Both were wunderkind; Dixon was elected to the state legislature in his early 20s, and O'Neal began his politicking by winning the race for sheriff in a heavily Democratic county. Both favor free markets for farm produce and more mining of soft Illinois coal. Both call American foreign policy "indecisive...
...touched for almost a quarter-century. The year 1914 echoed to the guns of August, and the tenth edition of Bartlett's vibrated with new quotations from foreigners: Lewis Carroll, Nietzsche, Shaw, George Eliot (also, belatedly, Thoreau's Walden, but still no Hawthorne or Melville). The '20s and '30s brought yet another revolution in literary sensibilities, and new Editor Christopher Morley decided in 1937 that the best rule for choosing a quotation was simply his own taste. "We have tried to make literary power the criterion rather than width and vulgarity of fame," he wrote. Morley...