Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steady west wind has raised mild havoc with Coach Brown's plans so far. The races that were scheduled to take place on the Basin last Saturday and Tuesday had to be confined to brushes on the short straight stretches upstream. One feature of the early season work has been the appearance of a number of Sophomores as strong candidates. In addition to Brownell and Gray, L. W. Dickey '30, Marshall Rawle '30, James Roosevelt '30, and A. A. Campbell '30 have shown possibilities. With four members of last year's eight in harness, with another quartet of former second...
...cigarette left on a sofa in the Fly Club. Holyoke Place, sprang into flame at 12.30 o'clock this morning and summoned three engine companies to the scene. A few minutes' work by the firemen extinguished the blaze with small damage. Smoke and water wrought some havoc with the interior...
...these many years there has been a feeling of rivalry between the Harvard Lampoon and the CRIMSON. The origin of friendly ill feeling lies in the shadows of the past but the legend mentions a bright red fire engine which wrecked havoc with the CRIMSON at one time. There have been other manifestations extending to the realm of sports which have led the CRIMSON even to unfortunate falsifications within its columns of baseball scores to the ridiculous figures of twenty-three to two. The CRIMSON's position in these affairs it must be admitted has been unfortunate. Within its limited...
...wife of meat packer) have a dog farm at Highland Park, Ill. Last week a cat crept in among 150 of the dogs; created a yapping, snapping havoc. A passerby rescued the cat, helped quiet the dogs, asked for a fine bulldog, was granted his request...
...tennis athlete is the clearest of these. Football toil has watered his courts, whitened his base lines and paid for his southern trip; courtesy, as one athlete to another, demands that he fatten the scholastic average of football by his presence on the squad. Double endeavor would perhaps create havoc among the statisticians; but that is a phenomenon, like the changing intelligence of a three letter man, which is overlooked in the Foundation's computations...