Word: quakers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After a close call, or should I say, shave, at Cornell, and about three days of solid pinball, the Crimson hosted Penn, a team which much like Harvard's has its head into a lot of different things. The Quakers, who last year won the Eastern League in the regular season and the Easterns in post-season, were hurting. Harvard caught them napping, and, with the help of a bungled Quaker relay, upset them. Typical of the kind of effort that the Crimson displayed all season was their unwillingness to give up when behind. They took three straight sweeps...
...Cross of Gold speech, William Jennings Bryan grumbled about "the man who goes on the Board of Trade and bets on the price of grain." In fact, trading is composed not only of outright speculation but of hedging operations by such agribusiness giants as Ralston Purina and Quaker Oats, which trade in future contracts as a means of protecting themselves against possible inventory losses due to the frequently violent price fluctuations of farm goods. To an outsider the buying and selling seem like an explosive quarrel; traders scream at each other and gesture with their hands. They are obeying rules...
...that the Friendsville Foxes have always managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Back around World War II, when the Quaker academy was the only high school in Friendsville, its basketball team was a force to be reckoned with in Blount County. Then a public school was opened next door, and enrollment plummeted. In a town with a population of 650, the academy now has only 63 students, most of them boarders but none of them, obviously, notable for their skill at basketball...
...Ivies with a 3-1 record, had started auspiciously for the Crimson. The sabre squad, a dominant force throughout the contest, grabbed three quick wins to send Harvard into an early lead. Gordon Rutledge, coming from a 4-1 deficit. Ken Hetzler, and Terry Valenzuela, each disposed of their Quaker foes with striking alacrity...
With the crowd cheering for a team sweep, Briggs ran up a 5-0 lead in the fifth game with Page, but the Quaker rebounded with seven consecutive points. Briggs took the advantage at 13-11 and 3-1, 4-3 of the overtime. But Page came back to win on the last possible point...