Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity quintet relapsed into the bad habit of losing Saturday night, by frittering away a nine-point lead in the final three and a half minutes against Cornell at Ithaca. The 67-63 loss was the fourth against three victories for the Crimson in league competition. A three-point play by Big Red captain Lou Jordan with 26 seconds remaining vaulted the home team into the lead...
...crimson jumped to a lead over the perenially strong C.C.N.Y. team by winning six out of nine foil bouts. Larry Johnson of the varsity shut out his opponent in foil, and Captain Bill Trebilcock won two out of three bouts. The visitors then gained back five of those wins, while losing four to the varsity in the sabres. Only Mike Woolf was able to win two out of three for the Crimson sabre team...
...sophomore guard Murray Milton who was the game's high scorer with 25 points, Columbia took the lead early in the game. At the seven-minute mark with Harvard leading, 9-8, the Lions scored seven straight points and began to pull away. At one point late in the first half, Columbia led by 16 points, 33-17, but the Crimson rallied to narrow the Lions' margin 36-28 at half-time...
...second half turned into a see-saw battle with the Crimson cutting into Columbia's lead only to have the Lions pull away again. With nine minutes gone in the second half, after Dave Grayer, who played the game in place of Bob Bowditch, had fouled out, Columbia increased its lead from four to eight points and maintained the margin until the closing minutes...
...position compared to the Soviets'. According to our Secretary of Defense, Neil McElroy, there is little need to worry; we are adequately supplied with the latest weapons. But the Soviets claim they are already mass producing ICBM's; Senator Stuart Symington has introduced figures which reveal a large Soviet lead; Werner von Braun reports that we are three years behind the Russians in developing our missiles, and intelligence estimates themselves show that the United States is soon going to fall well behind the U.S.S.R. in its missile arsenal. By 1963, it is estimated, against the Soviets' 1500 ICBM...