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Minutes later Ohiri watched a high pass sail over his head, overtook it on the high bounce, and headed it over the Penn goalie rushing out to meet him. The ball bounced slowly toward the goal, Ohiri darted around the goalie out-running teammate Ebenezer Klufio trapped it in to tie the League record...
...French scholar-the ancient Greeks gave human qualities to the planets. Mars, the red planet, was considered male, and the Greek word for Mars, Thouros, was abbreviated to "Th," or α. In the hands of careless and hasty penmen, this symbol eventually degenerated into δ. The same shorthand fate overtook the female planet, Venus, whose Greek name Phosphorus was reduced to Ph (Φ) and subsequently-perhaps by the same careless Grecians-to ø. When medieval alchemists came upon these symbols, they found them useful: δ (Mars) was associated with hard iron, φ (Venus) with softer copper. Later, the symbols were...
...university"-a small frame building in a wild mustard field. But the promise was elusive; even in 1927, U.S.C.'s endowment income was only $21,000. Still, U.S.C. managed to train most of its area's doctors, lawyers and teachers until the late 1940s, when mushrooming U.C.L.A. overtook...
...quarters of a mile to go in the race, M.I.T. led the Crimson by a full length, and was headed for its first Compton Cup victory since the cup races began 28 years ago. But then the Crimson, headed in reinstated stroke Perry Boyden, turned on the stream and overtook the Engineers to win by a length in 10:19.6. Princeton finished in third place at least a length behind M.I.T., with Dartmouth last...
...Crimson finished fourth in final team standings of the National Collegiate swimming championships after the 400-yard freestyle relay team set a new NCAA meet record Saturday night. The team overtook Michigan State's early lead to win the event...