Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no more painful way to lose a tennis match. Just two points away from victoryin the penultimate match of the day, Harvard's tennis team suffered a stunning 5-4 loss at the hands of Yale yesterday on the Palmer-Dixon courts...
Although Harvard won the 15-man match, it is the nine-man match that counts in the Eastern League standings. The defeat not only drops Harvard's record to 3-1, but it virtually eliminates any shot at the league title or a trip to the NCAA...
...Harvard should have no trouble getting psyched for the match. The racquetmen have gained momentum from the Columbia and Penn victories, and a victory against Yale would mean a shot at the league title and a possible NCAA berth. And as Lundy put it, "Just the idea of losing to Yale is kind of nauseating...
...first Rugby Beanpot Tournament, held last Saturday at St. John's Seminary near B.C., the Harvard ruggers defeated B.U., 12-8, in the morning game, then lost the championship match...
...work in which Henderson simply fails to come alive as an operatic hero. Possibly he is too rambling, too widely split a character to be captured in the broad terms that opera thrives on. Certainly Kirchner, who conducted the première, has come up with nothing musical to match the rich flow of language in Bellow's novel. Instead, he has given Henderson a kind of Sprechgesang (the style of half song, half speech developed by Arnold Schoenberg) in which to rant and rave...