Word: berths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson is seeded second behind Ivy League champion Cornell in the eight-team tournament, and would seem to have an excellent chance for a berth in the NCAA tournament in Colorado...
Princeton can clinch another Ivy League title by beating defending champion Columbia this weekend. If either Penn or Columbia loses one game, and Princeton wins one game of the two each of the three teams will play tonight and Saturday, then the Tigers will have their NCAA berth assured...
...part of Harvard baseball left more than a year ago when they removed splinter stadium and the team fought to a berth in the NCAA finals. This year Harvard has lost considerably more than those bleachers, forcing any fan to hope that Harvard baseball thrives on adversity...
Throughout most of his career on the tennis court, Clark Graebner, 25, has suffered from two ailments: a tight back and a loose lip. Two years ago, for example, after winning a berth on the U.S. Davis Cup team, he was dropped from the competition for the ungentlemanly way in which he cussed out a ball...
Socialism and Rheumatism. He was an indefatigable barnstormer, crisscrossing the U.S. in each of his presidential campaigns, riding the upper berth of a Pullman sleeper to save money, lecturing in the booming, resonant tones of a prophet. As early as 1928, he argued for old-age pensions and public works, the five-day week and unemployment insurance. When Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal made those ideas law, socialism's appeal to the U.S. working class began to diminish. "It was often said," Thomas reflected, "that Roosevelt was carrying out the Socialist Party platform. Well...