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Although no scores were kept, Harvard's top competition in the meet came from Brown, the meet's host and the team with the best opportunity to knock off the formidable Crimson at HEPS next weekend at Columbia...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: W.Harriers Fare Well at Brown Invite | 5/4/1994 | See Source »

...increasing conflicts in American politics made it difficult to govern at all. Nixon, as the nation learned later when it heard the Watergate tapes, brought to the White House an extraordinarily permanent anger and resentment. His staff memos were filled with furious instructions to fire people, investigate leaks and "knock off this crap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Nixon: I Have Never Been a Quitter | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...paddling is fatuous -- but then, as John Updike once noted, old boys of Eton and Harrow can often "mistake a sports car for a woman or a birch rod for a mother's kiss." The pain from flaying with wet rattan, as it is done in Singapore, can knock a prisoner out cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whipping Boy | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...short, it is not going to be easy to knock of three highly-rated teams in one weekend...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Men's Lightweights Face Big Weekend | 4/30/1994 | See Source »

...then a senior drag racer with license plates reading "Sarah Downing" roared up behind her and swatted the ball out of her stick as Paul Bunyan would knock down a tree...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Lax Rebounds To Destroy Brown | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

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