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Crimson goaltender Brian Petrovek could have taken an exam for the first 39 minutes of the contest, as Harvard's defense checked the opposition effectively, allowing the Tigers only 13 shots on the cage over the first two stanzas. Not until the third period did Petro have to display his Beanpot form...

Author: By David A. Wilson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Cool Feisty Princeton, 5-2 | 2/19/1977 | See Source »

...bolted, but Whacker had barred my only avenue of escape with a cage containing an amorphous, feather-covered mass of seemingly organic matter, labelled "Boneless Chicken (Szechuan...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: One Day At The p-3 Facility... | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...Petersen (honorable mention to Jon Garrity), he was the runaway winner of the "Hard Luck Harry" Award, B.C.'s Paul Skid-played Nadia Comaneci in the cage, stopping almost everything in sight, and several shots that couldn't be seen...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Boy, Did You Miss Out! | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...disagree with your labeling the San Antonio News an ignoble fish wrapper. The News would probably make a good bird-cage liner or emergency umbrella. I prefer to confine my reading to the San Antonio Light and, of course, TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1977 | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...author's prose style is some times clouded by a purple hue, but his in sights are as clear as those in Lewis Thomas' Lives of a Cell. In one chapter Selzer defines the heart as "purest theatre . . . throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. It quickens in response to our emotions. And all the while we feel it, hear it, even - we, its stage and its audience." The liver is that "great maroon snail," of whose existence one is hardly aware until it malfunctions. "No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Philosopher's Stone | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

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