Word: beating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard beat Dartmouth, 16-8, and therefore is 8 points better than the Indians. Dartmouth beat Holy Cross, 8-14; Harvard thus has a 2-point edge on the Crusaders. Holy Cross defeated Syracuse, 14-13; and so the Crimson has 3 points over the New York State team. Syracuse crushed Cornell, 55-0, making Harvard 58 points better than...
...points means 40 touchdowns, give or take a few. That's an average of one score every minute and a half. Why, a game between Harvard and the so-called "best team" from Louisiana would prove the biggest bore since Adams House beat Notre Dame two years ago, 311-6. They might even have to put in the Stadium peanut-vendors to keep the score down...
...Johnson, Senate Majority Leader, in a blast in the coal-mining center of Welch (pop. 6,850), called on West Virginia to elect two new Democratic Senators to replace its Republicans. He charged that the G.O.P. is running against Old Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, because they know they "can beat poor old Gene Debs, because he is dead and buried. But," cried Johnson, "they can't beat unemployment, they can't beat sickness and disease, and they can't beat Khrushchev by resurrecting a dead man-and a dead issue-and kicking him around...
...speech that is understandable to American audiences. He is currently working with Japan's Miyoshi Umeki and the rest of the cast of Flower Drum, shaving vowels, changing consonants, even breaking Comedian Storch of his New Yorkese. Just about the only time Agent Rivers got off the Oriental beat this season was when Producers Feuer and Martin insisted that they would cast their new musical Whoop-Up only with full-blooded Indians. "I scoured the area," says Rivers. "My God, I had hundreds of Indians down for the auditions. You know what Feuer and Martin ended up with...
...speakers had no trouble finding triumphs to praise in their complimentary preambles. In 1835 the college became one of the first in the U.S. to adopt a policy of admitting Negroes, and in 1841 became the first coeducational college to grant bachelors' degrees to women; its football team beat Ohio State as recently as 1921. An impressive number of educational observers call Oberlin the best coeducational college in the country, and there is much to support its right to top rank...