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Word: elies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eli right hander managed to walk the first man in every inning and got into trouble in the first as Harvard scored what was its only run of the game in the inning. Ed Durso ran the circuit, reaching first on the customary lead-off walk, stealing second and finally scoring on a wild pitch to give Harvard a 1-0 lead...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Splits Doubleheader with Bulldogs | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...dentist picked SAY AHH. The owner of a mattress shop took SLEEP, a salvage contractor used JUNKIE, and a pharmacist chose PILL. Various Volkswagen owners have labeled their beetles LUV BUG, V-DBL-U and EL BUG. Ernest Campbell of Dallas could not resist SOUP, and Eli H. Lipton of the same city coyly selected T BAGS. Clergymen have embraced such identifications as 4 JESUS and TRY GOD. OOOOPS was the plate that one man rather cruelly chose for his accident-prone wife. But no Texas couple seems to have found quite the far-out felicity of a California husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Letterbugs | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

Harvard and Yale have been playing each other in baseball since 1868(Yale leads the series 127-122-1), and the tradition is there. But unlike the football rivalry, the excitement is not. Despite the slim Eli edge in the series, Harvard is catching up fast as the Crimson has won the last nine contests, a streak that goes back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Yale Vie for 250th Time In Baseball Today | 4/20/1974 | See Source »

...Eli coach Ken McKenzie (the first pitcher on the Mets to have a winning record--5-4 in 1962) has his work cut out for him if he wants to duplicate last year's third place finish in the EIBL. His squad has lost five league contests, dropping doubleheaders to Penn and Princeton and a single game to Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Yale Vie for 250th Time In Baseball Today | 4/20/1974 | See Source »

People are scared of cracking their heads wide open on the bottom (if you recall last year's Yale meet, Eli diver Roger Oliphant had a face-to-face meeting with the deep end), and that doesn't bode well for Harvard diving...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: CBS Reports | 3/12/1974 | See Source »

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