Word: dorset
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...entitled to an annual ground rent of one snowball from the Munros of Foulis, and a white rose from the Duke of Atholl. The royal real-estate holdings are enormous: estates in Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset, beaches in Cornwall and Devon, 100,000 acres of farmland, immensely valuable land in London (the south side of Piccadilly Circus, both sides of Regent Street, two theaters, three restaurants and the Carlton Hotel). But Elizabeth "owns" these properties only nominally. They are administered by Crown Commissioners for the benefit of Parliament, under a bargain struck with George III in 1760. In return, Parliament...
Halfback Bagnell completed 20 out of 29 passes for 276 yds. Fourteen of the completions came in a row, to break an old record (ten in a row) set by Cornell's Lynn Dorset in 1947. In 18 carries he ripped through Dartmouth for 214 yds. Total Bagnell yardage: 490 (out of Penn's 590 for the day), to break the alltime individual yardage record (458 yds.) set by Indiana University's All-America Bob Hoernschemeyer against Nebraska in 1943. Penn...
Despite the loss of such name players as Hilary Chellet and Pete Dorset, Cornell is an almost unanimous choice among football experts to capture its third straight Ivy League championship. The Big Red is being mentioned in the same breath as Army as tops in Eastern football and, harring upsets, James may record his first undefeated season...
...most important of these vacancies, the quarterback who is vital to the Big Red's T offense, James had an ace up his sleevo in Rocco Calvo. Calvo had all but won the job from Dorset during pre-season practice last year, but then he suffered a knee injury which sidelined him for the season...
...Dorset took over, and did an admirable job in steering Cornell to eight wins and one loss, a 16 to 7 upset by Dartmouth...