Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wildcat's gondola (two pasenger) cars hit the headlines last year for providing skiers with a thrilling and unplanned descent. The safety mechanism didn't perform as well as it might have, and passengers, locked in their gondolas, were given a surprise coast backwards down the cable at apparently terrifying speeds. No one was injured, and all were generously refunded their money...
Unable to hit the hoop from the floor during the entire second half, 'Cliffe basketball enthusiasts lost to Boston College, 27 to 23, yesterday afternoon in an extremely small, narrow...
...though John Lasell as Jack and Wendell Clark as Algy do some nice things after they have gotten over their first-act stiffness. Mr. Lasell has no sense of Jack's earnestness, his utterly sincere hypocrisy, his damnable stuffiness; Mr. Clark copes somewhat better with Algy, but cannot quite hit off his incorrigibly cheeky lightmindedness. As a result, they appear as a set of almost interchangeably cheerful young men. Gretchen Kanne misses the hothouse bloom of Gwendolyn, who exists in and through Society like an elegant bacterium in its nutrient broth. (In the midst of an ineffably decorous cat-fight...
Named to the All-Ivy second team (in what amounts to a victory for the Dartmouth publicity office), Harrington led the team with a 14.5 average, but hit for 17.8 points a game in Ivy play, making him fourth highest in the League. That Dartmouth's Chuck Kaufman was named to the first team over both him and Cornell's Lou Jordan, the League's leading scorer, is simply an inaccurate appraisal...
Hurdler Joel Landau, the varsity's best bet for a first place, did a heroic job in untangling his form well enough to give Brown's Angelo Sinisi a battle. Leading the field over the last hurdle, Landau hit the barrier, a very rare occurrence, and lost to Sinisi by the narrowest of margins...