Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's other hopes lie with 136-pounder Frank Trinkle and Captain Don Louria at 165. Both experienced men who have hot-and-cold days, Trinkle is in a class where competition is relatively weak this year while Louria is in one of the better weights. Louria has lost to two men in the tournament; Trinkle, three...
Flagman Edward J. Mulvihill tried the brake; when it failed he ordered the passengers from their berths, told them to lie flat on the floor. For 3½ miles and about five minutes, they lived a common bad dream. The car teetered at 50 m.p.h. around Bennington Curve (where the Pennsylvania's Red Arrow had killed 24 in a wreck ten nights before), highballed a mile and a half more and took off into a mountainside. When it was over, brave Porter Lee Keys Jr., who had gone back to fight the handbrake on the rear platform, was dead...
...year ago Curtis Publishing Co. rushed the first big postwar magazine to market, then stepped back to await the applause. It was far from deafening. Well heralded Holiday hit the newsstands with a thud, and at 50? a copy most people just let it lie. It was hard to tell the stories from the ads, and the editors themselves hadn't decided whether they were describing a Roman holiday or a beggar...
...callers came & went-an old judge who claimed that he had loved 100 women, no more, no less; the great Lord Northcliffe, who usually passed at least part of each visit relaxing prone on the floor. "There's absolutely nothing to be surprised about in someone choosing to lie on his stomach," Marie Leighton explained. "The sooner you children learn to accept any eccentricity as though it were a commonplace, the better equipped you will be for life...
Varsity track coach Jaakko Mikkola, who used to lie awake nights during the lean wartime years thinking up ways to beat juggernauts like Worcester Polytechnical and Milton Academy, is getting much more sleep these days. The reason is simple...