Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never Enough. "Baseball," says Stan, "is a game you can play as long as you still have two things: desire and the ability to concentrate. Concentration comes hardest of all. The effect on the nervous system is cumulative. At the end of every game I'm beat...
...German," he announced. "I'm taking off weight so I can fight either Patterson for the heavyweight championship or Ray Robinson for my title. I'll get that knockout record soon. And I'm going to run it up so high that no one will ever beat...
...Casually upping the beat to a fast 36 for the final drive, Yale's power-stroking crew, built around three veterans of the 1956 Olympic winners, defeated Pennsylvania by 2½ lengths in the 27th Blackwell Cup on the rain-flattened Harlem River. On Carnegie Lake, rowing with five sophomores in the shell, Harvard won the 22nd Compton Cup by 2½ lengths over Princeton in record time, raising the probability that the traditional Yale-Harvard race in New London next month will be a keel-hauler for both crews and will settle the championship of the east...
...story bordering on trash, Charlotte Bronte brought storytelling bordering on genius. Told by uncoy, buffeted, orphanage-bred Jane herself-who comes as governess to Thornfield Hall, where the Byronic Mr. Rochester has a mad wife hidden away-Jane Eyre advances, in a rush of words, with a beat of real emotion...
...little less than half a mile to go, the Crimson rowers were ahead by almost a length. The varsity held steady at a 35 as Penn sprinted higher and began to catch up while rowing at 37. Penn was still inching up slowly, as the Crimson increased its beat to 37 while the Quakers were flashing towards the finish at a fast 40, The Red and Blue, however, failed to gain any more, and the varsity crossed the line half a length ahead...