Word: browne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...captain Joe Green paired with Lee in the "A" doubles tournament and, despite being seeded No. 1, lost in the finals, 8-6, to Brown teammates Malone and Josh Hoskins...
...than snapping Yale's two-game winning streak on its home field with a 1-0 win Saturday afternoon. Back in 1997, on the same field, Yale upset Harvard with a 3-2 overtime win, halting the Crimson's winning streak at 22 consecutive League matches, just shy of Brown's Ivy League record...
...nearly an act of archaeology. Hardy tested armfuls of swatches for the mammoth curtain, assessed carpet samples from several continents, appraised scores of variations on the foil wallpaper used in the hall's public areas. Misguided renovations in years past didn't help. The turbid purple-and-brown pattern on the auditorium carpet got that way because the first replacement had been matched to the worn, filthy colors of the original. Hardy's research revealed that in 1932, before 100 million shoes had shuffled through the room in its first nine years, the carpet had been light and buoyant...
These pointers might have helped me avoid my bloody nails. And winning the tournament might have eased the pain. But we didn't win: Brown did, which made the pain even worse...
...Assuming the Risk: The Mavericks, the Lawyers, and the Whistle-Blowers Who Beat Big Tobacco (Little, Brown; 384 pages; $24.95), Michael Orey, an editor at the Wall Street Journal, describes the American journey from a public attitude of "Tough luck, buddy" to the group-grievance activism of the '90s, brought to lucrative fruition in lawsuits--by Mississippi, Minnesota and 38 other states--that have extruded from the tobacco industry the promise of close to $250 billion, to be paid out over 25 years...