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...yard touchdown dash by Bobby Leo broke up a close ball game and gave Harvard a victory over Yale at the Stadium today. The score...
...found in adoption-agency reception rooms affect an air of simple good taste (no jewelry other than religious medals), shun cigarettes, hum strains of lullabies every now and then. The same couple, accompanying their college-aged son to the admissions office of a select university, will dress with understated dash (a necklace of wooden, hand-painted beads for her, suede elbow patches and a Dunhill pipe for him), intersperse comments on their reading ("One always comes back to Ovid as if for the first time") with reminiscences of "the old days at Chicago...
...have a team to cheer for until 1887?eight years after the famed Golden Dome of Our Lady first cast its glint across the Indiana plains. It wasn't much of a team at that; in two years, Notre Dame lost three straight to Michigan, prompting the coach to dash off a plaintive letter to Yale's Walter Camp: "Dear Sir: Will you kindly furnish me some points on the best way to develop a good football team?" Whatever Camp's advice was, it worked: the Irish were unbeaten m 1892 and 1893; and in 1903, they...
...Nation, a vague nostalgia for the disputes and disillusionments of the thirties lends it a stridency which soon bores those who see more complexity than evil behind this country's woes. Characteristically, The Nation's cover is all black and white, while the New Republic usually adds a dash of mauve or olive...
...here that Walt had to pull away, but over the half-mile grind into the upper atmosphere he was able to gain only a five-yard advantage. Lynch closed that quickly in the level dash to the finish, pulling ahead with about 600 yards to go and finishing 35 yards and five seconds ahead of Walt...