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Against the Falcons, the Crimson won in all events except the 60-yd. dash, with several runners turning in their best performances to date. In the 880, Harvard's Martha Clabby and Becky Rogers ran an exciting race, with Clabby crossing the finish line just 0.5 seconds ahead of Rogers in the winning time...

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Beckford Clocks Season's Best Mile | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...worried about making up the points, McCurdy could have consulted his tri-captain, Joe Salvo. The senior sprinter, returning from injuries that sidelined him the first half of the campaign, appeared in top form as he won the 60-yd. dash, helping to pick up the slack...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Tracksters Upset Huskies, 71-65 | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...theorists seem likeliest to meet. Computer boffins at Manhattan's Rockefeller University play a game called Hunt the Wumpus, in which the Ph.D. devouring Wumpus is hunted through the perils of a 20-room cave. Computer language is flat and unresonant, and Hunt the Wumpus lacks a certain dash. But a toymaker may say, "Give me a way to display a Wumpus! Make him buzz and light up!" and next Christmas everyone may be going into debt to buy an expensive, electronic Wumpus Wars. By then, civilization as we have already started to forget it will have disappeared beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...dash it!" "Now darn it!" "You're kidding!" and "Oh!" Or "Frankly, my dear, I really don't know...

Author: By Sue Brown, | Title: The Professor Who Has Everything | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...cops to let them in so they won't lose the places they earned by chilly endurance. The Secret Service insists on "sweeping" the entire Common first for hidden evil, a search-and-destroy operation that requires the pinstripe suit. When the guards finally give the word, the spectators dash towards the line of yellow and white barrels separating the notables from those who will sit in the same mud, but farther back...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A City Awaits A Pope | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

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