Word: losses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard was on the verge of football greatness. The years intervening between the first contest with Dartmouth and the first loss to the Big Green saw the Crimson develop into one of the foremost gridiron powers in the country. Harvard-Dartmouth scores ran as follows: 29 to 0, 70 to 0, 74 to 0, 38 to 0, 43 to 0, 64 to 0, 16 to 0, 48 to 0, 16 to 0, 36 to 0, 22 to 0, 4 to 0, 13 to 0, 21 to 0, 11 to 0, 27 to 12, 16 to 6, and finally...
Nearly everyone knows the story. The Kentuckians from the little backwoods college met the mighty varsity on its home ground and outplayed it, 6 to 0. For Harvard, it was the first loss in five years of football greatness...
...other two teams that are grouped with the Crimson in the middle of the League, each with a win and a loss, clash at Princeton. The Nassau eleven will be a slight favorite against Cornell, which should, however, bounce back strongly...
Bermuda's Criminal Investigation Department was at a total loss. Some people talked of a "moon-mad" killer, since all four attacks took place shortly before new moon. In desperation, Colonial Secretary John W. Sykes rushed a call to the FBI asking for help. Under U.S. laws the FBI could not help without evidence that a U.S. citizen was involved. Sykes turned to Britain's famed Scotland Yard, which sent two of its top men last week...
...Lawrence Cowen, president of the Lionel Corp. since 1946, resigned as president and was named board chairman by a group of investors-headed by Lawyer Roy Cohn-which got control of more than 200,000 of Lionel's 720,000 outstanding shares. Ailing Lionel (1958 loss: $469,057), a leading toy-train maker, also produces baseball gloves, fishing gear and electronic devices. Cohn, once chief counsel of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigating subcommittee, said his group will name a new president in the near future and adopt "drastic marketing changes...