Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rather than staying with its competitors, the Crimson elected to tack away from the fleet. Harvard fell way back. Although they managed to pass two boats in the final legs, and finish seventh, it cost them the title...
Dartmouth's cross-country team showed historians the form that let Daniel Boone make it safely 20 miles to Boonesboro, when it was humiliated here yesterday, 15-50. A total of eleven Harvard runners had crossed the finish line before the first Indian straggled in, three minutes and three seconds behind winner Doug Hardin...
John Heyburn and captain Erik Roth came in third and fourth, and Dave Truesdell finished the scoring with a sixth-place finish...
...West to East, the U.S. of today is knit together in an increasingly common culture that leaves plenty of room for individualism but little for the old separateness. In his Travels with Charley, an account of a trip around the entire continental U.S., John Steinbeck observed: "From start to finish, I found no strangers." Says Historian Daniel J. Boorstin: "Much of what people call provincialism is really a way of attacking this country for not being like Europe, or the Midwest for not being like New York. As a consequence of modern technology and higher standards of living, there...
...high-wheeled horse-drawn calesas of old Manila, with their tasseled canopies and courtly cocheros, have given way to the ubiquitous Jeepney, a freelance taxicab that typically sports a high-gloss enamel finish in rainbow hues, Playboy-bunny mudguards, pink-fringed roof, and a sign that reads "God Is My Copilot." Crammed with such passengers as pigs, chickens, guitarists and call girls, and plagued with an absence of brakes and springs, the Jeepney needs celestial guidance...