Word: markers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon flight. His office at 641 Huntington Ave. is clearly a temporary measure, dominated not by a massive oaken desk, but by a few filing cabinets and bulletin boards. There is another map of Africa, perforated by colored push-pins, and an exhortation, carefully written in magic marker on lined yellow paper, to remember that "I" is the least important word and "we" is the most. His inspirational message is obscured when the office door is open. Karefa-Smart maintains a more substantial address out in Weston with his wife, but, from all appearances, he is only hanging...
...Malley allowed only one more hit the rest of the way, but the Crimson bats remained silent. The sole Crimson marker came in the first as Hogan doubled and scored on Joe Mackey's base hit. O'Malley was thus handed his third loss in a row. His first was to Yale's Gallagher in that whacky no-hitter, and the second in a close one to Cornell...
Staked to a 4-0 lead, B.C.'s Ron Luongo set about the task of holding off the scrappy Crimson hitters. Ed Durso broke the ice in the bottom of the third for Harvard, bringing home the first marker on a well executed double steal...
...last spring, a football prospect from Philadelphia was inspecting the green expanses of Soldiers Field. He almost tripped over a rock near the now-deflated bubble, and, as he cursed what seemed so out of place on a playing field, he found that the stone was a dedication marker commemorating a former Harvard great who seemed totally insignificant to the high school recruit at that moment. "One thing about this place," he said. "Every god damn thing has some guy's name scratched on it somewhere...
...oddest marker of all can be found near the City Hospital on Mt. Auburn St., an inconspicuous tablet that reads: "ON THIS SPOT IN THE YEAR 1000 LEIF ERICKSON BUILT HIS HOUSE IN VINELAND." The stone was placed on the left bank of the Charles in the 1880s by Eben Norton Horsford, then Rumford Professor of History Emeritus. His painstaking research led him to believe that the Northmen were familiar with Boston Harbor and the Charles, and that Cambridge was Vineland itself...