Word: compton
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...upsetting the Crimson, Princeton gained the Compton Cup for the first time in over a quarter century, while MIT, the last non-Harvard winner in 1962, finished a distant third...
...Compton Cup, Lake Camegle...
Baseball vs. Penn (2) Soldiers Field, 1 p.m. Men's heavyweight crew vs. Princeton, MIT (Compton...
...several layers of black fabric. They were still getting their bearings when a prince, a special friend of the king's needed treatment for an ulcer. His high status and the awkward timing made the doctor's visit a test case for the entire hospital. Dr. Hugh Compton, the hospital's director of medical affairs, told...
Writers, artists and beauties flit through Quennell's pages like guests at one of Lady Ottoline Morrell's parties. Here is George Orwell, with his face of "haggard nobility"; Novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, "clever, sharp-nosed, sharp-chinned, close-lipped"; and Rose Macaulay, telling a friend at the end of her life, "I think I'm going to die in a fortnight. When are you pushing off?" Quennell writes affectionately of Artist Augustus John, with his gypsy ways and tribe of illegitimate children; John was immensely popular in his heyday, yet "had nothing of the fatuous outward...