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...other sports action, former All-Americatennis player Larry Scott became the first Harvardplayer since Chauncey Steele in 1970 to compete atWimbledon, sweeping past Greg Holmes of Salt LakeCity in the first round, 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 (9-7tiebreaker). Scott's stay was short-lived,however, as he fell in his second-round match toMichiel Schapers...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Men's Crew Defeated In First Race at Henley | 7/7/1987 | See Source »

Bird watching. Noun (archaic). A form of harmless staring, conducted in woody areas, by genial eccentrics often named Matilda or Chauncey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: All That Jizz | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...problems with the wind and didn't steer as well as I should have," said the Crimson coxswain, Chauncey Wood. "That affected the set, the run and the effeciency of the boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Freshman Eight Lose Ladies' Cup Finals | 7/8/1986 | See Source »

...then Reagan has always been attended by an aura of amiable averageness. The producer Alfred de Liagre said that Reagan on film "always had the manner of an earnest gas-station attendant." Liberal writers have dismissed him as ideologue, cretin and airhead, or worse. They have thought of Chauncey Gardiner, the transcendentally brainless seer in Jerzy Kosinski's novel Being There. Gardiner, in the eloquence of his idiocy, becomes a national oracle. "How humiliating," the columnist Nicholas von Hoffman wrote of Reagan in 1982, "to think of this unlettered, self-assured bumpkin being our President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Yankee Doodle Magic | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...Before a race, I just pray we execute well," Crimson freshman heavyweight coxswain Chauncey Wood said. "If one little thing goes wrong, everything might go wrong. It's all so psychological...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Just Another Day in the Sun | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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