Word: contests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baldauf led off the contest with a double to left, and Harvard batted around with hits from Rowning, Crowley and Bluestone to score four runs...
Harvard attempted one last rally, putting in two goals by Rob Griffith and Kramer only 27 seconds apart with 10 minutes left in the game, but Adelphi responded with two more of its own to wrap up the contest. Another tally by Raymond with less than three minutes left brought the final margin to five...
Early in the contest, a super-quick B.C. player got outside of the Harvard defense. In the Eagles' 32-6 shellacking of Harvard back in the fall, that same player tallied on two similar breakaway runs...
...Minneapolis. Then her mother and father die, victims of the flu epidemic of 1918, leaving the heroine and three younger brothers orphaned into the harsh care of an aunt and uncle: "If I was beaten with a razor-strop for having won a prize in a city-wide essay contest, I had no need to ask myself why . . . it was to keep me from getting stuck up -- logical, given our position. And it was easy to find the cause of that; it was simply that our parents had died...
There is an inescapable tendency, however, to exaggerate Hart's liabilities. At this premature stage, almost everyone following the Democratic contest -- the press, campaign consultants for rival candidates, and party officials who want to be wooed -- has a vested interest in a political horse race. Small wonder the conventional wisdom is filled with airy speculation about which Democrat might suddenly emerge from the pack with a Hart-stopping charge in Iowa or New Hampshire...