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Leverett has its own Spring weekend coming up: derbies on the Charles. Its Civic Improvement Society chisels fossils from the showers and surveys the House's trapeziform dining hall. On the bulletin boards, blatant posters describe sports victories as "Pookahs Paw Listless Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noisy Leverett Roars to Prominence | 3/17/1951 | See Source »

...coach Harry Cleverly said that the Terriers really hit their stride in the Dartmouth game, played in Hanover, whereas the Crimson looked tired and listless in defeat against the same team two days later. The Indians, bouncing back hard from the B.U. defeat, held Welland's boys scoreless until the last 30 seconds of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet Plays BU Tonight | 2/13/1951 | See Source »

...fans who made their way to the Bogota bull ring one day last week to see a Mexican troupe of women bullfighters looked forward to nothing more than a mildly diverting afternoon of watching prudent girls avoid listless bulls. Actually, they were privileged to witness one of the high comic moments of Bogota's bullfight history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Over the Fence Is Out | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...Cairo, during an international soccer match between Egypt and Vienna, photographers snapped a listless rooter in a grimace of royal disgust: Bulgaria's exiled King Simeon II, 13, who had left his classes in Alexandria's Victoria College to see the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Women at Work | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Like other muscle-minded Argentines before them,* the three athletic attaches had been sent to the U.S. with an official subsidy "to facilitate their sports activities," i.e., win championships for Argentina. But they had failed. Brión lost a listless ten-round bout to fading ex-Champ Joe Louis. Gatica was chilled in two minutes, nine seconds by Lightweight Champ Ike Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Failure of a Mission | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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