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Word: hummers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awesome. Ivy titles in 1969, '76 and '77, and the NIT title in 1974. Upset wins versus North Carolina (a 16-pointer, with McAdoo and Jones playing for the opposition), Notre Dame, South Carolina, Oregon, Providence, Alabama, et al. First-round draft picks the likes of Geoff Petrie, John Hummer, Brian Taylor and Armond Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pete Carril Keeps on Pluggin' | 2/18/1978 | See Source »

...been totally ignored by fans and players alike. Scribes say he may soon be out of a job. Maybe he could go back to football. Reagan plays too far to the right for even a right fielder and Ford copies him, thus the famous Republican Shift. Kissinger's hummer is no longer what it once was, and his refusal to let anyone else play the infield positions has hurt in the past...

Author: By Sam Pillsbury, | Title: Spring Training for Presidents | 1/20/1976 | See Source »

...whom most magicians consider the greatest card manipulator extant; Percy Diaconis, a Harvard Ph.D. in statistics and inventor of more than 100 card sleights that have fooled professional gamblers; Martin Gardner, a science writer who can make the language of numbers appear as easy as pi (see box); Robert Hummer, a mathematical genius who would sleep on the floor rather than rearrange the cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Magic Boom: New Sorcery | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...second half Petrie continued to hit, scoring jump shots when Hummer, set screens for him, or cutting off picks for lay-ups. He finished with 27 points to pace all scorers, while Hummer added...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, | Title: Crimson Basketball Squad Loses to Princeton, 80-64 | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...Under the boards, the Crimson, which has outrebounded nearly every team it's played, should be able to match Princeton's rebounding potential. 6'7" center Hummer paces the Tiger rebounders, but if the Crimson screens Hummer away from the boards as well as it kept Penn's big men from getting garbage baskets, it should be able to outrebound Pricenton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Tops Cagers, 86-77; Tigers Play Here Tonight | 2/7/1970 | See Source »

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