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Word: eights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riding the crest of an eight-game winning streak, the skaters are second in the E.C.A.C. standings with a 15-4-1 record. All but two of those victories have been against mediocre opponents, but two wins have been over top-ranked teams--B.U. and the University of New Hampshire...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Elis to Challenge Crimson Skaters Tonight at Arena | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

Harvard started well, hitting some early jumpers and rebounding well, but Columbia overcame a 14-10 lead with successive eight- and six-point bursts midway through the half. By halftime, Harvard's best jumper, 6'3" Ernie Hardy had four personal fouls and the Lions were ahead, 49-38. Dotson had 15 points and 10 rebounds in the period...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Five Bows By 18; Dotson Scores 22 | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

Walaszek made eight of 14 shots, all lay-ups and finished with 18 points. All-American Jim McMillian playing his usual steady team game, had 16 points and 12 rebounds and guard Bruce Metz added 13, dropping six of seven outside jumpers. HARVARD Dover 18 Gustavson 11 Hardy 6 Gallagher 14 Janczewski 13 Waickowski 2 Noble 8 Yates 2 Stanislaw 0 74 COLUMBIA McMillian 16 Dotson 22 Walaszek 18 Metz 13 Starke 7 Wolfe 4 Fogel 2 Schiller 2 Boggan 4 Gordon 4 Armstrong...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Five Bows By 18; Dotson Scores 22 | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

...weight men and three distance runners are coach Bill McCurdy's best bets for the first-place points. Captain Dick Benka is the defending champion in the shot put and has thrown over eight feet farther than his nearest rival, teammate Charlie Ajootian. In the 35-pound weight, sophomore Ed Nosal will pair up with Ajootian to battle Navy's Ed Potts...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Harvard, Army Thinclads To Battle for Heps Crown | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

Nina was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in 1935 in Tryon, N.C., the sixth of eight children. Father was a handyman, Mother a Methodist minister. Both were musical, and Nina began taking classical piano lessons at seven. Bach soon became (and remains) her favorite: "There's always a place he's going and he gets there and he comes down gently. That's perfection." In 1953, after a year of study at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music (paid for by friends back home), she landed a $90-a-week job playing piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: More than an Entertainer | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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