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Word: cal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Biclanski turned down Stanford, U.C.L.A. and Southern Cal in favor of Harvard after each offered him scholarships in both football and baseball. Other schools warned him that Harvard played down athletics but he felt at the time that it was only recruiting propaganda. But, Bielanski said. he now feels the Harvard coaches were misleading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Star Transfers, Blames Athletic Program | 2/26/1970 | See Source »

Saar and Carson have entered the car in the second Clean Air Car Race, to be held next summer. The race, sponsored by two professors, one from M.I.T. and another from Cal Tech, will begin in Cambridge on Aug. 24 and finish in Pasadena. Calif. about seven days later. Other entries are from Cal Tech, Cornell. Toronto, and Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The M.I.T. Electric Car | 2/24/1970 | See Source »

...first race held two years ago, was a contest between an earlier battery-driven car of Saar and Carson, and an entry from Cal Tech. One-hundred miles from Pasadena. the M.I.T. car, which was leading by 24 hours, broke down and had to be towed to the finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The M.I.T. Electric Car | 2/24/1970 | See Source »

...Cal Tech won the race by 30 minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The M.I.T. Electric Car | 2/24/1970 | See Source »

...enough, as he told an Indianapolis court last week. He had to give refunds to two customers who lost their money to the device, then it took Goines' own 15?. "I shook that machine," Goines testified. "Then I walked over to the desk drawer, got my .22-cal. revolver, and I went over and shot the machine dead! After I fired the shot, I looked at that machine and I said, That's the last time you're going to cheat anybody.' " The municipal judge was not amused; he fined Goines $160 and gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Machinocide | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

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