Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Halfway through the last quarter with the score 12-1, Tim Ring, longtime Jumbo lacrosse coach commented, "This is the best team I've seen in two years, better than last year's Williams team. And Bruce Munro's done a great job putting them together...
...publisher is able to ask as much for about 60,000 words of text as he does for 260,000. Regrettably, O'Hara also reports that he is working on his heftiest novel yet (previous record: 897 pages in From the Terrace), apparently ignoring the fact that his jumbo works are not as good as his short ones. The outstanding qualities of these stories are matchless dialogue and-since there is much that dialogue cannot express directly-an attractive measure of reticence...
Captain Chris O'Hiri scored six goals to lead the freshman soccer team to a resounding 7-0 victory over Tufts yesterday. Showing the form that made him one of the top soccer stars in his native Nigeria, O'Hiri riddled the befuddled Jumbo defense for six goals as the Yarding squad posted its fourth straight triumph without a loss...
Using avant garde shovel blades called "Jumbo Bats," Isis tralled all the way, challenging only at the mile marker, where it came to within one-quarter length of the sprinting varsity. Crimson stroke Tony Goodman and company finished the mile, 550 yard course in 6:39, a new record for the Henley distance...
...Crimson and a surprisingly skillful Jumbo eleven battled up and down the field for most of the contest, but the varsity's superior condition began to tell in the closing minutes of the second and fourth quarters. Still, as the game neared its end, neither team had been able to score...