Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a great and foxy effort, but Budge had too much for him. That set ended 6-3. The next ended 6-0. Perry made 67 errors, never once broke Budge's service, had not only lost his Indian sign but his vaunted forehand. But he offered no alibi. Said he: "I never got my head above water...
...newspaperman who ends up drinking himself to death in a backwoods cabin in British Columbia. An awkwardly constructed, Lost Generation novel, teeming with love affairs, ineffective cures for alcoholism, neurotic athleticism, it will be read for its confessional thrills. But it will arouse little sympathy, despite the alibi that its drunken hero is an idealist "still searching for the impossible in love, still clinging to many of his childhood ecstasies and still uncalloused...
Graduation is the oldest alibi in the world for not having a good team, but Hal Ulon may still use it. Consider that with the Class of 1938 departed, with the exception of three men, a group of swimmers who comprised possibly the best dual meet team in the world. A coach doesn't usually lose a sprinkling of champions like Charlle Hutter, Graham Cummin, and Bill Kendall all at ones. Ulon faces a job he has attempted, and succeeded in before. He must build up a team that is worthy not only of the name of Harvard...
...course the most obvious alibi is that Dartmouth had to play under weather conditions far different than those at home. To practice in snow storms and zero weather, then make a tiring train trip, and then to play with the thermometer hovering near 70, is not easy. Little wonder that Coach Earl Blaik's line collapsed toward...
Another argument against the weather alibi is that Dartmouth has a wealth of reserve strength, chiefly responsible for defeating Brown, Harvard, and Yale. Why could not these reserves have turned the tide on Stanford...