Word: beate
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Both Zbikowski and Matthews are right about 75 per cent of the time when it comes to predicting the winning team, and beat the spread around 60 per cent of the time. Matthews began using the computer to make his predictions as a freshman, at the promptng of his father, a math professor at Lincoln Memorial University, who had been making football predictions for 25 years...
...last two minutes of the first half Crimson signal-caller Larry Brown, who is not to (but probably will) be confused with the other team, engineered a Beat the Clock drive that consumed 65 yards and kept Harvard in the game...
Harvard takes on Ivy arch-rival Yale in New Haven on Wednesday (face-off time 2 p.m.) before hosting Penn next weekend. "We're executing very well," adds Field, "but we have to give 200 per cent in order to beat a quick, tough Yale team...
...American record is hard to beat. There have been remarkably few accidents or sinkings considering the amount of traffic. Yet there is no reason to assume that Panamanians cannot do as well; the Egyptians have learned to run the Suez Canal, which admittedly lacks the complex system of locks of the Panama Canal. Says a senior State Department official: "Nowhere is it written that you have to have a Georgia Tech degree to run the canal. The canal is damned important economically to the Panamanians. It is their only natural resource, and they will take care of it." Writes Vermont...
...beat the block by leading off with other people's quotes.) "Blocks are simply forms of egotism," said Lawrence Durrell...