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...first part of the game, Northeastern played as good hockey as they have all winter and held the varsity to a 1-1 tie. After the three quick second period goals, however, the Huskies seemed to slowly fade before the superior Harvard speed and depth...
...average Briton is likely to assume that the government at the wheel must be to blame for these recurring jolts. But then his memory of each jolt tends to fade quickly as soon as the road gets smoother. The task of the Conservatives in this election is to make vivid recall of these crises to show, if they can, that they were blunders characteristic of Labor's rule...
Then Gehrmann slowly began to fade. "I felt kind of sick," he said the next day. "In the third quarter the other runners started going by ... I kept telling myself to stick with them and they kept passing me . . ." As the crowd roared at the action on the steep turns and in the short straightaways, Yale's tall George Wade took the lead. John Twomey of the Illinois Athletic Club shouldered past him. With 2½ laps to go and Gehrmann apparently in trouble, Wilt swung ahead of the field...
...Brazilian wife. She resented having to pour tea for Rio matrons while Carlosinho stepped out; she also resented the gossips' talk that, if she failed to appear in public for a few days, she was waiting at home for the black & blue marks of Carlos' annoyance to fade from her petal-soft skin. "I just can't make myself over in the Brazilian pattern," she decided, and divorced...
...fine state of preservation also results from the handmade linen paper on which it was printed. Experts of the Harvard University Press say that the paper will not fade from its original white for at least another 500 years. Other Gutenberg Bibles, printed on more expensive vellum, have already darkened considerably. The "paper" of the latter is effected by the animal oil in the sheepskin which composes vellum...