Word: gophering
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...pencil arrives in Sauk Centre, Minn., and asks cosmic questions: How's it goin'? What's the mood? Whither America? These visitations have been going on since 1920, when a native son named Sinclair Lewis published a best-selling satire called Main Street about a town he dubbed Gopher Prairie, which no one ever seriously doubted was inspired by Sauk Centre. Gopher Prairie was drawn as smug, suspicious and stuck in its ways, and that was a liberating vision for a newly urban America about to plunge into the jazz age. Main Street became a metaphor for a certain kind...
John U. "Jack" Lemmon '47 attended Harvard, as did Frederick L. 'Grandy '70 ("Gopher" on "The Love Boat"), Susan W. Stockard-Channing '65, Frederick H. Gwynne '51 ("Herman" on "The Munsters"), John A. Lithgow '67 ("The World According to Garp"), among other actors...
...Rivera rocketed leadoff home runs in the sixth and seventh innings, earning himself the team lead in gopher balls (five). His four rbi's upped his season total to 18 (tied with Jim DePalo...
Brown escaped the inning but made one crucial mistake, he left Farrell in the on-deck circle. In the seventh, Farrell led off for the third time and for the third time Harvard tallied runs. By the time Vierra smashed a 400ft. gopher ball to left center. Harvard had nabbed eight runs in two innings and a lock on the opener...
...Crimson's Afford smashed a gopher ball in each game and connected for two doubles in the nightcap, when the rest of the Harvard bats emerged form hibernation...