Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zamboni of the mind is now at work. The magic machine that sweeps away the refuse of what's transpired and lays clear the glassy sparkle of what's to ensue now attempts to construct a state of Harvard hockey that is positive and justified...
Meanwhile, the zamboni of the mind has stopped, held fast in time by a tradition with seemingly little future. There is no way that any lover of Harvard hockey will let it travel and kid himself about the prospects for next year. Similarly, there is no way that Harvard hockey can sidestep the serious problems of talent and performance that have slowly dispatched it from the pedestal of collegiate hockey. ECAC DIVISION ONE FINAL STANDINGS 1. Boston University 17-4-2 2. New Hampshire 17-5-3 3. Cornell 16-6-0 4. Dartmouth 14-7-0 5. Clarkson...
Vastola carefully adapts his game to his opponent. Last year, former Crimson captain and sabre fencer John Chipman--a lightning quick and superbly skilled attacker--repeatedly lost to fencers infinitely inferior to him. Typically, Chipman would utilize four or five feints on opponents who couldn't even see, never mind be deceived by them. They would poke their points forward in fearful reflex and touch Chipman's mask or torso...
...added that employees "could have explored other options, or influenced the company to change its mind" within that time period...
...either do not recognize or cannot handle it. This plus talent and true grit guaranteed her status as an original. But the lupus made her a prodigious writer of letters as well. "Mail is very eventful to me," she wrote one friend shortly after returning to Georgia. "I never mind writing anybody," she told another. "In fact it is about my only way of visiting people as I don't get around much and people seldom come to see us in the country." What might have been frittered away in conversation was thus preserved, and this accident of fate...