Word: puck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's play was hampered by errant passes, weak backchecking, and general difficulty in clearing the puck out of the goal gone. Harvard's weaknesses were magnified by its lack of game experience, and the fact that its opponent is an excellent hockey team. The Crimson improved throughout the game, holding the Terriers scoreless in the final period...
Right Wingman Richard has some tall claims to his title. A powerful skater and a cat-quick opportunist, he can pounce on a puck and fire his hard, left-handed shot for the net before defensemen can gather their wits. His mark of 50 goals in one season (1944-45) is an alltime League record (and one of the nine he now holds). Last week, Richard was again far ahead of the field in goals scored this season. And at week's end, Richard was hot on the trail of another record: the lifetime mark of 324 goals...
During the closing scene of Brattle Theatre's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" three centaurs marched in with candelabras of Roman candles. Amid the fireworks, Puck told the audience to think it "had but slumber'd here," bade it good night, and sunk through the stage...
...directors cast neither a girl, a child, nor Mickey Rooney as Puck. Instead, they gave Bryant Haliday the part and he does an admirably impish...
...library presentation ceremony was held in the $250,000 Beaverbrook Gymnasium (his gift for 1939). Later, Beaverbrook presided with uninhibited gusto over a black-tie dinner, where he heard himself described as "an astounding combination of Puck and Napoleon." The Beaver lingered until 4 a.m., helping the 250 guests put away 95 bottles of champagne, uncounted slugs of whisky, with many a lusty song...