Word: chute
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Harvard eked out two come-from-behind wins this weekend against Quinnipiac and Princeton by calling on a mix of young guns and seasoned veterans to ignite its offense. The rookie class shined on Friday night, with goals coming from freshmen Kate Buesser, Liza Ryabkina, and Katharine Chute in their first collegiate games. On Saturday afternoon, a trio with a few more years of experience provided the scoring. Senior tri-captain Caitlin Cahow, junior Sarah Vaillancourt, and sophomore Cori Bassett each capitalized on a Crimson power play to squeak past Ivy League foe, Princeton, by a 3-2 count...
...Jonathan H. Chute ’82, a pastor and a former member of the Philips Brooks House Association, says these protests showed a broader concern with South Africa at the time...
...Chute says that he thought the administration at the time saw divestment as low on its list of priorities...
...prodigious bison hunting brothers who helped lead the "Great Slaughter" in the late 1800s, are reviled for shooting so many bison on the open range. But, ironically, theirs was a more humane way of killing bison than ours. Last summer, I watched a bison heifer be led into the chute at the North American Bison Cooperative, a slaughterhouse in New Rockford, N.D. She became agitated, and she fought violently against the tight steel walls. It was painful to watch. Ahead of her, a door opened, and the heifer ran forward--into the waiting arms of a "V-conveyor restrainer," which...
While not engaging in skydiving certainly greatly reduces the chance of dying in a skydiving accident, it does not bring the risk to zero, as one of your sources stated. One could still be so unfortunate as to be standing underneath a skydiver whose chute fails to open. LAURENCE MARK New York City...