Word: finest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he couldn't play the game. The number two player and captain at Westchester County's Hackley School--a minor tennis factory that has produced the likes of Dick Stockton and ex-Harvard star Danny Waldman--Roberts played on the '76 freshman team, probably the finest freshman team in Harvard history...
INTERSTATE 90--"Our finest lad is down!" "You killed the best in Ithaka." Odyssey, XXII...
...quickly on the Harvard baseball team this weekend. The Crimson's 3-1 loss at Cornell on Friday and omnipotent 7-0, 6-2 sweep of Army on Saturday proved one loss too many to catch first-place Navy (10-4) for the Eastern League baseball crown. The "finest lads" of the EIBL, who had groped for consistency worthy of their potential all season long, are now without a season, without a goal, without a bus ride until next year...
...first game senior Paul McOsker relieved sore-shouldered starter Ron Stewart in the second inning, and the lanky lefty ("Hey, who put the uniform on the fungo?" was the razz line at Cornell) proceeded to hual his finest stint since he one-hit Princeton two years ago. McOsker brought his record to 3-1 for the year, yielding only two hits and three walks in six innings...
...building of Ross Barnett Dam and Reservoir four miles north of Jackson, Miss., the Pearl River has been a placid, peaceful stream. But last week unwary residents along its banks scrambled to get out of the way of its onrushing water. In some of Jackson's finest neighborhoods, owners of $100,000 to $200,000 homes frantically heaved furniture and other possessions onto their rooftops as the river spilled 25 ft. over flood stage and lapped at the eaves. Residents in boats actually had to look down at nearly submerged street signs to know where they were...