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...much for the reliability of predictions. The 1979 season begins--as have all others in the past--with coaches desperately trying to replace graduated letterwinners and fill porous positions from last year with the hope-springs-eternal "sophomores to watch...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Brown Has Size and Experience To Capture Ivy Football Title; Dartmouth, Yale Also Strong | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...rest of the evening, the Crimson peppened Eagle netminder Peter Columbo with 49 shots, as what can only be described as a porous Eagle defense continually allowed the Crimson attenders to get in close for easy shots...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Laxmen Crunch Eagles, 22-8, As Predun Leads Run Away | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

...overnight American superstar rapidly descending to the white-dwarf stage. His act, something along the lines of Alice Cooper's, only more so, included a routine in which he crawled out of an elephant's behind and dueled with a baseball pitching machine. Now, his brainpan made porous by drugs, Pomeroy has withdrawn to Key West, where he maniacally stalks his old love Catherine. A man with a lot less charm or interest than the author imagines, Pomeroy is given to such gestures as nailing his hand to Catherine's front door with a gun butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

PRINCETON at COLUMBIA--In its first three games, highly-touted Princeton has shown itself to have a slow quarterback, a sloppy veer offense and a porous defense. Then again, every year Columbia seems to be turning the corner, then they fool you and go 2-7. This time the Lions are for real. My brother went to Princeton and told me he'd beat me up if I picked Columbia, but my brother I can handle. Columbia 20, Princeton...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: JACK'S PROFILES | 10/14/1978 | See Source »

...Director ... continued with some account of the technique for preserving the excised ovary alive and actively developing; passed on to a consideration of optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity ... actually showed them ... how the eggs ... were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle; how ... this receptacle was immersed in a warm bouillion containing free-swimming spermatozoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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