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...Yale race is a festive time. Last year one freshman, known as "The Hulk" because of his physique, was nearly painted green for the race. The crew also enjoys private screenings of recent movies each night, and stages an extremely "rude" talent show, with each skit designed to outdo the others in (?) comedy. And as a climax to the two weeks, the oarsmen delightedly watch the tradition three-and-a-quarter-mile "coxwain's race." The four Harvard coxswains, urged on by the heavy oarsman who coxes, attempt to row a boat faster than their four Yale counterparts. Harvard...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: Crew Takes To The Charles: Avast There, Ye Lubbers! | 4/3/1979 | See Source »

...Congress has its finger in the wind, and they're going to outdo the President in cutting back," he added, predicting a series of "mini-conflicts" over urban aid programs such as CETA (Comprehensive Employee Training Act), revenue-sharing and Urban Development and Assistance Grants (UDAG...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Tsongas Tells Cambridge Civic Association That Area Cities Have a Chance to Recover | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

...Einstein's birth on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, and all the world seems to be joining the party. In the U.S. and Europe, in Asia and Latin America, even in the Soviet Union, where Einstein's ideas were once considered heresy, academic institutions are vying to outdo each other with special tributes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...should outdo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bullish Europe | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

There are more than a dozen different and distinct regional cuisines, and in each city the cooks vie to outdo their competitors elsewhere. A banquet consists of several dozen delicacies, orchestrated with regard for flavor, texture and color. Each begins like an opera, with an enticing overture leading ineluctably on toward the major arias. Because they lack space for pasturage, the central Chinese south of the Yellow River do not eat much beef or lamb. Most specialties are based on chicken, duck, pork, bountiful vegetables and a huge variety of fresh-and saltwater fish and shellfish. It is basically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: China Says: Ni hao! | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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