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Philadelphia has long been the butt of a lot of jokes in the world of sports. As nearly everyone knows, exheavyweight champ Sonny Liston once quipped that he'd rather be a lamp post in Denver than mayor of Philly. More recently Derek Sanderson said that coming back to Boston after a brief sojourn in Philadelphia was "like coming back from Vietnam...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Crimson Will Close Season on Road; Cagers to Face Penn Tonight in Philly | 3/2/1973 | See Source »

Corkery came busting down the right side two minutes later, and blasted one at Sagaser. The Bruin netminder couldn't hang on to the rebound, however, and Larry Desmond lit the lamp...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Icemen Upend Scrappy Brown Six, 6-2 | 3/1/1973 | See Source »

...Quakers took advantage of two power-play situations in the third to grab their fifth and sixth goals and give them a one goal margin. Bill McDonnell lit the lamp at 2:22 and Leef got what then seemed to the game winner at 10:05, with Doug Elliott out on a ludicrous tripping call by the referee...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Six Edge Penn, 7-6, In Wild Ivy League Thriller | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

Harvard's power play made short work of its appointed task, converting on both of the Husky's first stanza penalties. Just 16 seconds after Marc Green was whistled into the box for boarding. Corkery lit the lamp on a shot from about a foot outside the crease...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Icemen Shatter Huskies, 8-1, As Dave Hynes Collects a Hat Trick | 1/16/1973 | See Source »

...Nationale; secured with chains, too ponderous to cradle in a lap, original editions of Aquinas and Sir Thomas Browne, various Bibles and historical chronicles, lie open on high oaken tables or under glass. Their pages emanate the same subtle dust observable on the wings of a moth beneath a lamp. In the Founder's Library at New College stand row upon row of thick Latin treatises bound in ivory. And as I look through the notices in TLS of Sotheby's auctions, I discover that some of these volumes are still obtainable, at a price...

Author: By James R. Atlas, | Title: On Reading | 12/13/1972 | See Source »

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