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Point scoring came in effect in 1883, and the Tigers found that their big scores now looked even bigger. They swamped the varsity, 26 to 7, in 1883, and followed with 36-6 and 12-0 decisions the next two seasons. Harvard took a victory at home in 1887, but Princeton ran off four straight wins between...
...exuberance made an especially happy effect; the Andante seemed a bit pallid. But in the Allegro and the concluding "La Tempesta" (Haydn's cloudburst is Austrian naivete and gentility compared with Vivaldi's) they produced a sound richer and larger than the orchestra's numbers suggest. An even bigger sound could be heard in the substantial D minor piano concerto of Bach, in which the sonority of the opening unison belied the fact that the forces involved really amounted to an expanded chamber group...
Father Feeney has deserted the little red house on 12 Bow Street to go on to bigger and better things. Fortunately for the citizens of Cambridge, the 200-year-old house has not been left unoccupied. It is now the proud possession of Josefina Yanguas who owns and runs the Cafe Pamplona...
...carry-over of corn would be a whole lot bigger except for subsidized exports of corn...
Scouts in the Whiskey. By mid-1958, The Whiskey Distillers of Ireland, who wanted to make a bigger dent in the U.S. market, were in the fold. Weiner & Gossage started an Irish campaign that featured ads ending in midsentence, sniffed at the Brazilian coffee bean (because Irish coffee obscured the burnished flavor of Irish whiskey), extolled St. Patrick's Day in Mexico City. In the interest of scientific experiment ("Irish whiskey research in nature's laboratory"), Gossage dreamed up the Irish Geophysical Year, to be held in McMurdo Sound...