Word: musters
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...comparable to its counterparts at, say, Duke or North Carolina—easily outstrips Lavietes Pavilion in every respect, including, historically at least, the product on the court. But that’s no reason for Harvard to slap together an arena that wouldn’t pass muster at an upper-end high school program...
...their bus overnight as the overflowing Yura River swirled around them. The passengers later told Japan's Kyodo News service that they broke the windows of the bus with a hammer and then sang the 1961 hit Ue o Muite Arukou (known abroad as the Sukiyaki song) to muster courage. At one point, the water rose to stomach level. (All were safely rescued by helicopter and boat on Thursday morning.) Also stranded were 167 people aboard the Kaiwo Maru, a sail-powered merchant-marine training ship that ran aground in the waters off Toyama, 255 km northwest of Tokyo. Awaiting...
...Singlehanded National Championships, the Harvard sailing team’s sophomore Clay Johnson and freshman Kyle Kovacs pitted themselves against some of the best competition collegiate Laser sailing had to offer. With second- and third-place finishes in their respective divisions, the Crimson’s singlehanded sailors passed muster, leading the Crimson to eighth in a 20-team field at the Navy Fall Intersectional last weekend...
...Latham reaches the podium at 9:45. Pale and subdued, he looks as one might expect a man to look who's been billed as a savior but whose party has lost ground in his first shot at power. Acknowledging a long ovation, he can muster only brief, brave smiles; the sting of defeat has stripped him of his usual self-consciousness and he's the more appealing for it. In this sense nothing in his campaign became him like the leaving it, and his speech is magnanimous, though this is a pleasing tradition in Australian politics - in what must...
Cornell certainly couldn’t muster any solutions on Saturday. In a season that has seen Fitzpatrick’s role largely reduced to handing the ball off to sophomore running back Clifton Dawson, the Harvard captain reminded everyone that—for another six games at least—this is still his team...