Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard continued its drive for the title Saturday by easily overpowering a hapless Cornell club, 7 to 1, for its seventh straight victory. This kept the varsity abreast of the rampaging nine from New Haven, which blanked Princeton...
Coach Bill McCurdy, preparing his team for this week's Heptagonal championships at Princeton, tried some new combinations in the victory over the hapless Bruins. The varsity responded by taking first place in all but two events, and gaining all the places in five events...
...They have ugly little quarrels; she takes them for tiffs of true love. To Christine, marriage is a kind of exclusive club for grownups, and she is willing to pay any fee to join. With Ned, the fees come high, for he turns out to be a slack-spined, hapless sort who has to be propped up by his family whenever the going gets rough. By the time they call it quits, Christine can admit her romantic error: "It is only when we are mature that we ask nothing of love, when love is itself the far country that...
...unquestionably a western. When Spencer Tracy steps off the streamliner into the Arizona hamlet, it is the first time the train has stopped there in for years. Vast desert countryside, in CinemaScope, presents an appropriately morbid and untrammeled background for Black Rock, which contains the usual lawless gang and hapless sheriff. Conspicuously absent, however, is the stereotyped melodrama which might have brought Bad Day at Black Rock down to the level of typical cowboy films...
...concerns Ivy championships or Colorado invitations, tonight's varsity hockey game with Yale at New Haven Arena will prove absolutely nothing. At best, the hapless Elis can salvage a fourth-place in the Ivy League...