Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ominous morning trial heat in which the Crimson varsity eight fell by two-tenths of a second to a Brown boat they had downed by two lengths earlier in the season foreshadowed Harvard's afternoon defeat...
After burning one recipe, Claiborne said, "Sarah Bernhardt fell flat on her face." Earlier he had said of his Science Center surroundings, "There's no place like home, I'll tell...
Martha Roberts, Harvard's top seed, did put some kinks into the Green rampage. Roberts' effective use of the lob and her steady volleying fell just a tiebreaker short of capturing the second set in her match with the leader of the Dartmouth pack, Thayer Wendell...
...Robertses were up 5-4, but Awad and Wendell, the Seven Sisters Trophy winners, took three consecutive games to grab the initial set. In the second stanza, the Robertses fell behind 4-1 and could never quite recover. They made a run for it, pulling to 4-3, but the Dartmouth squad proved too tough as they notched the next two games to close out the match...
Nothing was above satire, even sportswriting, as Mike saved some of his best barbs for his Saturday morning football prediction column of the last two seasons. Although never professing expertise, "El Predicto" became absurdly accurate, even amidst lines like "I met a girl from Lehigh last summer and fell in love. LEHIGH 52. YALE...