Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coach Shepard's very capable mound staff, will probably get the starting assignment today. Wadsworth also started the earlier Eli game, and was not up to his usual standard of effectiveness. However, his overall performance this season has clearly established his excellence as a pitcher (his won-lost record is 4-2, his earned run average around 2.00) and it will be surprising if he does not improve on that previous Yale outing...
...firm policy, refused to go along. Later, however, voluntary collections were allowed at some home games. After a tight 7-6 victory over Dartmouth, the unbeaten Crimson eleven, led by All-American Barry Wood, confidently faced their New Haven rivals in the season's traditional final game--and lost, by a heartbreaking 3-0 score at the hands of Albie Booth...
When it came to choosing sites for the 1964 Olympics, the I.O.C. had much less trouble. Tokyo won the summer games with 34 of the 58 votes. Innsbruck, Austria, which barely lost to Squaw Valley as host for the 1960 winter games, was an even easier winner, with 49 votes in favor...
...days. Last week they worried off to $176. Last fortnight the most aggressive tipster service. I.F.A.S.. rode up the stock of Motor Colombus by 10% in a single day simply by reporting-with no fact or explanation-that it would jump sensationally. Last week the stock lost half its 10% gain, and at least one other hard-touted stock. Columbus Electronic, dropped to less than half the price at which I.F.A.S. recently recommended it as a good...
...first page of this massive Civil War novel, Hero John Bottomley is up before dawn to fight a duel with villainous Ules Monckton. But he does not reach the dueling ground until page 143. having lost his way in a maze of flashbacks intended to introduce the reader to the large, and largely predictable, cast. There is the weak younger brother who breaks his stern daddy's heart; the high-strung mother who fears a slave insurrection; the "giddy, harum-scarum" little sister; the coldly beautiful woman who spurns the hero and marries money; and inevitably, a willful, head...