Word: bested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long. His five catches for 99 yds. gave diminutive--5-ft. 8-in. and 150 lbs.--receiver 34 receptions and 576 yds. for the year, and extended his lead among Ivy League pass catchers. With two games left in the year, Horner's season is already the fourth best in Harvard history...
...Yale-Cornell contest pitted the nation's top-ranked defensive team, Yale, against the Ivy League's best offensive eleven. Through three and one-half quarters, it seemed like offensive power would prevail, as the Big Red, after trailing 17-6 at the half, stormed back to lead 20-17 with six minutes to play...
Under Question 3 the city would encourage the use of safe, renewable energy sources, as well as requesting state and federal governments not to license new nuclear power plants. Because nuclear power is not the best long-term resolution to the energy crisis, we support strong measures to develop alternatives...
...Picture History succeeds as a telling--and perhaps unwitting--character analogue of Boston and its baseball team, the team that has been blessed with some of the best baseball talent, and cursed with the worst fate. They haven't won a World Series since 1918, and their three years in the Series since then have been epochs of cold destiny and it makes you wonder if the slave ghosts of the Yawkey family's South Carolina plantation aren't visiting some terrible voo-doo on the owner's Boston plantation. And these days, the ghosts couldn't have found...
...perhaps a little masochistic, always coming back for more frustration after having their hearts broken. They have even been rooting for the Red Sox at some road games and you wonder which is the visiting team...Fenway's fans--they're a rare species, some of the world's best...and a few of the worst...