Word: justness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another department where speed shows is in punt runbacks. The average Cornell runback was nearly 17 yards, the opposition's average a pawky 12. It takes fast linemen to get down and make the blocks and fast halfbacks to carry the ball for a team to compile an average of...
In 1840, since it stood on the only hill in the Yard, the building was picked to be the University's first observatory. A skeptical classics professor reported to a friend that "there is a caboose set upon the roof with a telescope that commands an unobstructed view of all...
The longest-term resident was Professor George Herbert Palmer, whence the second half of the building's name. Palmer, a well-known classical scholar who claimed genially that he "existed on the decay of Greece," lived there from 1894 until 1933. On his initiative, the astronomer's "caboose" was finally...
Chi argued that Whouley never asked him his qualifications. "He just said he didn't want any part time help."
Page entered the last half inning with a three run lead, and once again a Coleman insurance run proved necessary. With none out, Olmo drove a homer into the left field stands. Page disposed of Snider easily, but Roy Campanella lofted a high fly which just cleared the top of...