Word: aceing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back when--call it 1975--Radcliffe prospectives needed not concern themselves with that section of their applications under the call word "Athletics." Play the violin, ace those SATs, live in Idaho--but be a jock...what are you, sexist...
...course, it's still OK for prospective freshwomen to play the violin, ace their SATs, or live in Idaho. Just as long as they don't leave the athletic section of their application blank...
Princeton swept all four places in the two-mile run to bury any Crimson hopes of winning the meet. Harvard distance ace Pete Fitzsimmons, suffering from a cold and lack of practice and freshman Reid Eichner, tired out from his earlier performance in the mile, couldn't catch the fleet Tigers. The Crimson could manage only 50 points to Princeton...
Saturday's slalom dropped Radcliffe back into its final third place standing. Ace freshman Fajtova turned in a fourth place finish, missing the third spot by a mere four-tenths of a second...
...Scout Morality. Borman is the second famous aviator to head Eastern: the first was World War I Ace Eddie Rickenbacker. Nonetheless, Borman's astronaut fame was initially a disadvantage. When he began working as a consultant to Eastern, some colleagues dubbed him "the moon man" and distrusted his purely military background. His impeccable Boy Scout morality and reputed humorlessness also put off some fellow executives...