Word: beated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: Although the odds of a Columbia victory over Brown are slim (The Crimson beat Columbia, 6-0, September 16 and lost to the Bruins, 1-0, in overtime September 29), the Princeton game is still a very big one for Harvard. "A win would be a nice way to end the season for the seniors," Reilly said. "It would be a good carry-over to next year."..Junior stopper Tara Weinstock added, "It's a matter of pride. We really want to go out there to beat Princeton...
...brought forth a generation of fierce reformers and a new brigade of muckraking reporters, like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell. It was Jacob A. Riis, a New York City newspaper photographer working the police beat, who first recognized how photography could be enlisted in the cause. His job frequently took him through Manhattan's most wretched and dangerous districts, places that the Danish-born Riis knew well from the desperate years after he had arrived in the U.S. in 1870, when he had slept in doorways and picked his dinner from trash bins. In 1887 he came back with...
...champion said computers are moving in the right direction, and predicted machines will be able to beat strong grandmasters in two or three years...
Last November, Deep Thought beat the world's 96th ranked player, Denmark's Bent Larsen--the first time a computer had defeated a grandmaster in tournament play...
...casual listener who knows Jones mostly from her 1979 hit single, Chuck E.'s in Love, will recognize the smoky snap of her voice in the opening moments of the fine first track, The Horses. But just as quickly, the changes will be obvious. The jazz inflections and beat intonations are still intact, but all the mannerisms have been pared away. Jones isn't hiding behind artifice anymore. Her lyrics may be enigmatic, her music an eccentric mixture of rock, electrified hipster jazz and reggae, but she makes it all flow by the sheer force of her feeling...