Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Empson's poems came out of hard thinking about poetry. Twenty years ago as a student at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Empson turned on his studies a now legendary power of concentration. In a university famous for mathematics he got a "first" in the subject, then a "starred first" in English...
...sister Lucy, who willfully eloped with Puggy Brown, the butcher; Lucy had scrubbed floors, suffered humiliation and yet found happiness in Puggy's gypsy crusade as leader of a revivalist sect. He remembered his own brilliant brother Edward, who rose to power as a Liberal politician and later came to a colorful, if disappointing, end. These people had made mistakes, thought Tom, but they had taken chances. They had been of the real England "whose nature was rather affection than passion; whose gaiety was rather humor than wit; whose judgment did not spring from logic but from sense...
Three freshman teams came through with good solid wins on Saturday. Dolf Samborski's '52 baseball team blasted out a 13 to 4 victory over Governor Dummer, while a stone's throw away in the Stadium the Yardling trackmen opened their spring schedule by winning a triangle meet against Boston University and Boston College, 96 1/5, 62 4/5, 14. The freshman lacrosse team traveled to Northfield to wrest a 6 to 4 win from Mount Hermon...
...score came when Al key picked up a ball kicked back from a scrum and pitched out to another three-quarter back, Sam Adams. Adams ran to within 15 yards of the goal line, when, finding himself hemmed in by McGill players on all sides, he lateraled to Al Green who just made it over the line before being hit by two McGill players. Green was slightly shaken up on the play...
John Caulfield had scored Harvard's only run in the first on a two-base error by shortstop John Yurewicz, an infield out, and another infield error. After that, the Crimson never threatened. Its two hits(by Pete Petrille and Mort Dunn) came in the second and third but Petrille was forced at second and Dunn was caught stealing...