Word: brainstorm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pitchers in those days fired the ball underhand, standing only 45 feet from the plate. A "cross-fire" was created by the pitcher moving along a six-foot painted strip from which he made his delivery. In short, before Thayer's brainstorm the lot of the backstop was "nasty, brutish, and short...
...anyone who has dealt with the Harvard bureaucracy knows, many a brainstorm has gone out to sea in a tornado of red tape. Jackson also knew that if he didn't do his homework in advance, administrators would view his "boxing extravaganza" as nothing more than an unfeasible pipe-dream. After all, intramural boxing at Harvard had been banned in the early 1970s...
Seriously, then I came up with this brainstorm. Why not replay the 29-29 tie? I've got the game film hidden under my bed and after all, the darn thing was so long ago, who would be the wiser...
Since the Crimson women handed UMass its first defeat ever in dual meet competition last week and ran all over highly touted URI yesterday, Hunt's brainstorm may be the latest around the Harvard campus...
...according to New Republic legend, is a transposition of Brooklyn Rapid Transit, and was the brainstorm of an editor carrying the very first unsigned column to the Brooklyn printer via subway...