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Brown's scoring resurgence was sparked by the other half of the Brown quarterback team-passer Pete Beatrice. Beatrice picked the porous Crimson secondary apart in the second half, hitting for 152 yards and a touchdown...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Vicious Crimson Offense Outguns Brown, 35-32 | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...Harvard soccer team, taking advantage of a porous Columbia defense, broke out of its scoring doldrums Saturday as it evened its season record at 2-2-1 with an easy 3-1 win over the Lions. The game was never as close as the final score...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Crimson Booters Down Columbia, 3-1 | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...hour, 13-minute tilt, a porous Oakland defense committed five errors, as 49,151 looked on in Alameda Country Coliseum...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Mets Even Series With 10-7 Victory Over Oakland A's | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...Boston (estimated 1972 sales: $12 million), a wholesaler of the product in the Du Pont days, which bought a license to use the name and unsold inventory for $6,000,000. President George Newman, 33, reports that he has sold most of the huge stock of Corfam "poromeric" (from porous) leather that he bought from Du Pont and began producing NewmanCorfam in his firm's own factory last January. Though Newman has experienced some technical problems, the young Corfam owner claims that he expects to sell 15 million sq. ft. this year, enough to make 7.5 million pairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Synthetic Rebirth | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...artistic heritage seemed uncertain. The water was everywhere-soaking into the fragile wood of old carvings and panel paintings, expanding its cells and cracking it, seeping up inside walls and working outward through the surface of their frescoes, causing bloom, mold growth and discoloration, flaking the surface of porous stone like puff pastry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Long After the Flood | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

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