Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the point scores of both leagues combined, Kirkland's quintet tied with Eliot's to capture its fourth House crown. Dunster and Winthrop tied for second place in the basketball standings...
...groceries the man and his wife ("almost strangers to each other") picked blueberries "on opposite sides of a high bush." With "positive thinking" all came right in the end ("We found God and each other in a blueberry patch"). A disgruntled dining-car waiter was about ready to crown some of his patrons with a tray when Author Peale suggested the nonviolent tactic of "shooting prayers'' at them instead. Result: "smiles all around...
...season, although excellent in many respects, cannot be accurately described as completely successful one for the Harvard squash team. The varsity won the Intercollegiate Team and Individual Championships but lost the Eastern Intercollegiate crown to Navy and could only manage a tie for the Ivy title with Yale and Princeton...
...Crown Prince Faisal, brother of King Saud, arrived today for talks with Nasser on action to keep the Israelis from using the Aqaba Gulf as a channel for high seas commerce. "We accept no bargaining on this point," he told newsmen. "We will fight every effort to decrease the Arabs' sovereignty over their territorial waters...
...sports-minded. Besides the NCAA Hockey Tournament, it sponsored the World's Figure Skating Championships this year, and although their losses ran into the thousands of dollars, the sponsors were only too happy to pick up the tab, especially since a CC (Colorado College) boy, David Jenkins, won the crown...