Word: lossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friday--They spell "Ithaka" with a "c" now, and if you're wondering where the "k" went, look at the stats of Cornell pitcher John Nurthen, who struck out 11 Harvard batters in Friday's 3-1 loss. Nurthen, the senior righthander who has now fanned 77 in only 69 innings, yielded only seven Harvard hits on the day, while mixing fastball, curveball, and dirtball (Nurthen mysteriously refused to pitch with a clean ball) for his complete game victory...
...lightweights--however, were the scales used for weigh-in. One rower stepped on the scale only to find to her horror that she weighed 132 (all rowers must weigh 130 or less). The problem was quickly rectified--she stepped off the scale and then on again, for a weight loss of five pounds...
...Clemenson in "The Great Train Robbery." His face bulging and mind oozing, the inspector explicated the crime. "When you speak of train robbery, I want to emphasize that this involved no loss of train, merely its contents. We haven't lost one since the blizzard of 1946, when we misplaced a small one." Well, then, who could have perpetrated the crime? Clemenson leans forward ominously, wrinkles his brow, and emits his conclusive response. "We believe this to be the work of thieves." Oh, so thieves are responsible? "Oh, good heavens, no! I believe the thieves are irresponsible...
Coach Ted Washburn's heavyweight freshmen crew, also undefeated before the Sprints, met disaster with about 500 meters remaining, when two members of the team caught crabs (a complete loss of synchronization with the rest of the boat). The Crimson, second before the miscue, settled for fifth behind Yale, Northeastern, Wisconsin and Cornell...
Unfortunately the Crimson could not keep pace with Ursinus beyond the half and a scoring surge left them with a 6-4 loss...