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From the outset, it was obvious that the meet, held at B.U.'s Feneuil Aquastic Center, would match Harvard's depth against a talented corps of B.U. sprinters, while Boston College, Northeastern, Tufts,and hapless Brandeis floundered far behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Greater Boston Championship Meet Aquawomen Finish Second Behind B.U. | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

Winless since a 57-55 decision over Penn on December 5, the cagers sent a slightly realigned starting line up onto the court and totally dominated the hapless Purple Cows (that's right, the Purple Cows...

Author: By Gewn Knapp, | Title: Women Cagers Down Williams, 59-45, Take on Dartmouth in Hanover Tonight | 2/3/1982 | See Source »

...came to be known as the Roosevelt coalition. To the solid South and the big-city machines, he had added an implausible combination of blacks and ethnic minorities, intellectuals and labor unions. Even Poultryman Schechter confessed that "the 16 votes in our family were cast in his favor." The hapless Lemke won only 890,000 votes and Communist Earl Browder a trifling 80,000. Alf Landon later remarked that the result reminded him of a tornado that swept away a man's barn and reduced his house to splinters. The man's wife found him laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: F.D.R.'s Disputed Legacy | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Rogers points out that except for hapless St. Thomas More, most of these opponents have more depth and talent than the Crimson because the prep schools at least get their best players on the court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of Players Plagues JV Hoopsters; Squad Stumbles to Dismal 3-6 Record | 1/27/1982 | See Source »

...manner and arch responses to game-show questions won him five Emmy nominations and a wide daytime following. As an actor, he played a befuddled fussbudget who delivered witticisms in the face of disaster in the stage and film versions of Bye, Bye Birdie and more than a dozen hapless Hollywood comedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 25, 1982 | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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