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...fact that the Lions would go on to a second-place Ivy finish, because the slide had already begun. Emotion could do only so much, and it had helped to carry the Crimson past insignificant early-season opponents like Manhattan, Holy Cross, and even lowly Merrimack. The peak came too early to help when it really mattered...
Sheehan downplayed the performance that won him his All-America honors, saying "The distance runners were trying to peak for the outdoor season. My win at the IC4As was my best race. The time wasn't really good. It was a tactical race. I expected someone to make a break for it, but no one started to kick until the final straightaway. I just accelerated faster than they...
...climbed 1.7% in January, its sharpest advance in 18 months. That report electrified the stock market, where investors went on a buying binge. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped nearly 26 points during the day, to 1309.96, before falling back to a record close of 1299.36, which topped the peak...
...upper monument three years later. But the new marble was slightly different in wearing quality, and a 26-ft. band was fixed in place before engineers rematched the stone. That band is noticeable today. In December 1884, a 100-oz. aluminum cap was placed on the spike-shaped peak. Then on a wintry Saturday morning in February, the dapper President Chester Arthur, according to a contemporary account, "laid his silk hat at his side, slowly removed his heavy doeskin gloves and deposited them in it, held his eyeglasses on his nose" and read the official dedication. Mathew Brady, the famous...
...could soon grow enough grain and fiber to feed and clothe itself comfortably operating at just half its full crop-growing capacity; the rest could be profitably employed only by selling overseas. But U.S. farm exports, after multiplying more than six times, from $7 billion in 1970 to a peak of $43.8 billion in 1981, fell more than 20% in the next two years, and are reviving only slightly now: the 1985 total is expected to be $36.5 billion...