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...tight-fisted grip on the Ivy League championship reduced to a finger-tip pinch, the Harvard men’s tennis team will face trying times this weekend. With its first home loss in the Ivies since 2005 and its Ancient Eight destiny out of its hands, the Crimson (9-8, 1-1 Ivy) will try to reclaim the initiative on the road with this weekend’s double-header against Princeton (9-8, 1-2 Ivy) and Penn (9-9, 0-3 Ivy). Following last weekend’s narrow defeat at the hands of Ivy League leaders...

Author: By Allen J. Padua, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tennis Hopes To Rebound Today | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

Stokowski had molded the orchestra into a peerless instrument that he controlled with finger-tip accuracy. Ormandy's achievement was not only to preserve Stokowski's legacy but, in some ways, to surpass it. He was no mere caretaker. If he lacked Stokowski's restless adventurousness in presenting modern music, he nevertheless championed new works by his contemporaries Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. If his scrupulously maintained low profile was the antithesis of Stokowski's flamboyant showmanship, he nevertheless insisted on a uniformly high performance standard, which can be heard on the hundreds of recordings he made with the Fabulous Philadelphians. Above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fabulous Philadelphian: Eugene Ormandy: 1899-1985 | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...also included strangely disturbing phrases, which gradually built into loud and powerful sections: once again, Mr. Mehta was in full control, wielding a very precise energy over the orchestra. The final section involves a sudden shift, from an extremely loud fortissimo to a barely audible pianissimo--and Mehta employed finger-tip control in the transition. Ending the work was a mysterious piano, celeste, and harp trio, and the audience's reaction, which was hardly overwhelming, was also a bit baffled...

Author: By Matthew Gabel, | Title: Zubin Mehta & The Israel Philharmonic | 10/17/1972 | See Source »

...almost 20 Ibs. in the past year. The intestines and other internal organs, exerting pressure against the muscle wall, found a weak spot at the drain site and forced an opening. A piece of intestine (it may be either the large or small bow el) has pushed through. Finger-tip size in April, it is now as big as a golf ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: A Rupture & a Polyp | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...eventful history of the series, the 1951 encounter also stands out as a memorable thriller. Yale came from behind to tie the Crimson 21 to 21, late in the fourth quarter. The varsity's three scores all came in dramatic fashion--a fourth-down finger-tip cacth of a pass by end Paul Crowley, an 84-yard run by halfback John Ederer, and a pass intercep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Series Filled With Surprises; Eli Manager Scored Point In '52 | 11/24/1962 | See Source »

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