Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overcoming their British counterparts. vanquishing them 222-144. Led by Crimson Co-Captain Gus Udo, who won the triple jump and the high jump, the American men triumphed in 18 of the 19 events. Other Harvard winners included Dwayne Jones in the 400 meters. Brad Bunney in the 800, Adam Dixon in the 1500, and Paul Gompers...
...license for commentary, the most trenchant presented in a theological framework. Painters and sculptors, for example, are the Roman Catholics of art, their tools and materials are sacramental objects. Writers are the Protestants, working alone in a bare room with only a pencil, "like God's finger touching Adam...
...metric system, Dixon hasn't had many chances, but few doubt he has the capability to run a sub-four-minute mile. Dixon is likely to have his final chance when he last dons a Crimson uniform for the Cambridge/Oxford meet in England 10 days from now. For Adam Dixon, an athlete who will be sorely missed, the mile record would just be icing on the cake...
...time in Cambridge, the Harvard squad went from being a very mediocre club to one that by this season's end could compete with the nation's finest. And while fellow seniors Adam Beren and Warren Grossman played a key role in the team's climb, the major spark proved to be Sands...
...same, says Aloian, to be certain Harvard had not misread Walesa's words, he passed along a copy of Beranczak's translation of the union chief's reply to Adam Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and head of Harvard's Russian Research Center. Ulam pronounced it accurate--"It seemed fairly faithful to me," he remembers...