Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wherever it originated, the shot wound up nestling in the basket for the game-winning two points...
Scott's performance was especially encouraging. He sank eight of eleven shots, and showed that he is capable of substituting for either of Harvard's big men, Barry Williams and Meria McClung. And he's going to be needed Tuesday night when the Crimson exhausting race-horse style of basket-encounters Boston College and their ball...
Against Amherst Wednesday the Crimson offense was phenomenal: McClung, Sedlacek, and Dressler all scored 20 points or more and the team connected on 52.5 per cent of its field goal attempts. But the defense occasionally looked shoddy; Amherst did much of its scoring by working the ball under the basket. In the first 17 minutes of play the Jeffs scored 24 points--and not one of their field goals was made from more than four feet out. This may bode ill for tonight's game...
...seized by the thought: "How much more interesting it would be to type music than invoices." She bought a secondhand typewriter from a friend and began years of figuring how to reproduce 8,000 chords with 46 keys. Biggest breakthrough was the idea for vertical typing, in which the basket of type and not the paper shifted up and down eight spaces, or an octave-an inspiration that struck her one day while riding up and down in a creaking elevator in her apartment building. She financed her experiments with winnings from soccer pools, small donations from friends...
Besides being the largest single owner of Du Pont and one of the richest men in America, Copeland is also a chemist and a financial expert who believes in Andrew Carnegie's dictum: "Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch them." Fiercely loyal to the closely woven clan and its company, Copeland believes, in the best big-business tradition, that Du Pont has a duty to do a great deal more than make money for its 240,000 stockholders. As he sees it, the firm that his family founded needs to set the pace for others...