Word: cumberland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such a consistent winning record would be an achievement for any large university; for Tennessee State, it is nothing short of remarkable. Just 5,000 students (600 of them white) attend T.S.U.'s red brick campus on the banks of the Cumberland River in Nashville. The football budget is only $268,003, compared with almost $1.4 million for the University of Tennessee. The physical facilities would give nightmares to Bear Bryant or Woody Hayes: a stadium that seats barely 16,000, a dusty dirt practice field, unpretentious locker rooms and modest office space for a coaching staff of seven...
...real serious part was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances . . . Attending the funeral of a father, how little reason soever he had to love him, could not be pleasant...
...Newcastle-he fell into a fit of crying-but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there . . . Then returned the fear of catching cold, and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and turning round found it was the Duke of Newcastle standing upon his train to avoid the chill of the marble...
...fill the gap by buying an ownership stake in struggling companies. They will back just about any kind of business that shows a potential for making profits; Narragansett Capital Corp. of Providence, R.I., is now bankrolling ventures in cable television, soft-drink bottling and women's overcoats, while Cumberland Associates of Manhattan is investing in real estate and ice cream-making firms. In return for his money, the venture capitalist gets a piece of what he hopes will become the next Xerox...
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