Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their way to the Yale meet, the Freshmen defeated the best Dartmouth and Princeton Freshmen teams in recent years. The Indians had the bad luck to be the team participating in the Crimson's first nome meet, and lost by the telling score of 60-26. The Tigers were more fortunate. A somewhat rough flight to Princeton preceded a Freshman victory there by only...
When King Kalakaua-the "Merry Monarch,'' elected by the legislature two years after the end of the Kamehameha dynasty-ratified a reciprocal trade treaty with the U.S. in 1875, Hawaii boomed in earnest. But then, embroiled with a corrupt legislature and a Svengali-like adventurer, Kalakaua lost his grip; scandals raged as the spendthrift King kicked the public debt from $388,000 to $2,600,000 until, in 1887, he was forced to sign a new constitution stripping himself of his near-totalitarian powers...
Thompson had assumed that football was a subject fit for kidding at Brown, which was an eager signer of the Ivy League de-emphasis pact of 1954, has since played the game so honorably that its teams have won 24 games, lost 20. But to his astonishment, Thompson soon learned that football is no laughing matter-even at Brown. His phone rang night and day with anonymous threatening calls from sullen students. Curious to see how Brown would react to more balloon pricking, Thompson stuck tongue farther in cheek, called for the abolition of the Navy...
...well figure dout. "I don't feel the 'waves of love' they tell you an entertainer is supposed to feel. The hardest thing is to make it look as if you're enjoying it," he says. "It's so mechanical now, I find my mind wanders and I get lost in the middle of a song...
...come-from-behind victory in the Boston K. of C. Meet or his duel with England's Brian Hewson in the B.A.A. Games came away unhappy. And, on March 7, he produced one of the greatest efforts in track history by catching Hungarian Istvan Rozsavolgyi after all seemed lost, winning in a new world record time...