Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dunster nosed out Eliot as the House most Yardlings do not want on their applications, polling 96 and 91 votes respectively. Over 60 percent of the freshmen blackballed at least one House. Winthorp, however, came through relatively unscathed, drawing only nine objections. Dunster, Adams, and Lowell, all in the upper...
Rushing from stop to stop, sniffling and red-nosed from a cold, Secretary Dulles not only talked, but listened:
Richards was nosed out for fifth place by a French boy nine years, younger than he. Earlier in the competition Richards had earned more points than the French star, but lost out in the final round.
Champion Bowdoin, with 550.4 points, nosed out the Crimson with 548.26. Maine, Colby, and Norwich followed in that order.
Minutes later, the four-man Swiss sled, a red-nosed quarter-ton of steel, wire and canvas, started its practice run. Brakeman Fritz Stöckli gave a final shove, then hopped on behind his white-sweatered crew: Driver Endrich, Crewmen Aby Gartmann and René Heiland. Runners rattling on...