Word: ithaca
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even if there is a bit of a residual effect from Yale’s near miss last weekend, the talent gap here is too large to ignore. Yale wins going away—something residents of lonely Ithaca, NY could surely appreciate...
...easily manipulated. I thought education would allow people to reason for themselves and be less susceptible to opportunistic movements. To read that students in some of the U.S.'s best universities support gay bashing and opposition to affirmative action and abortion rights completely shatters that illusion. MEY KHALILI Ithaca...
First-year coach Jim Knowles has brought a new attitude to Ithaca, that’s for sure. But attitude can’t change the fact that his top returning running back gained only 446 yards last season and his top wideout posted just 36 receptions for 419. So there appears to be little relief in sight for a club that scored in double digits only five times last season never was able to score more than 24 points in a game...
PREDICTION: It’s six hours from Ithaca to Cambridge, but that will appear to be a brief instant compared to the interminable drubbing the Cornell will receive at Harvard Stadium...
DIED. THOMAS GOLD, 84, subversive astrophysicist whose brilliant and often heretical scientific theories dealt with everything from the mechanics of the human ear to the origin of the universe; in Ithaca, N.Y. In 1948, with fellow physicists Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi, he proposed the steady-state theory of cosmology, which suggested that the universe is constantly producing matter and infinitely expanding. This philosophy, which flew in the face of the more widely held Big Bang theory, was elegant but ultimately proved flawed. Gold's daring explanation of pulsars, however--that they are rapidly spinning neutron stars--was a winner...