Word: quakers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn's biggest problem in the Cornell game was keeping their own crease cleared. Six of Cornell's seven goals came on tip-ins, and unless the Quaker defensemen can keep Harvard's forwards at a respectable distance, goalie John Marks will spend most of the night on his knees...
...week hurled its latest bombshell. In an unprecedented action, it proposed that the nation's four largest cereal makers be broken up into smaller companies, partly on grounds that their lavish ad campaigns enabled them to keep out competitors and inflate prices. Kellogg, General Mills, General Foods and Quaker Oats were also accused by the agency of falsely advertising their products as body builders and aids to weight control. The case, which represents a new twist in antitrust enforcement, will almost certainly wind up in a long court battle. It raises a worrisome specter for all corporations that lean...
...question for you City of Brotherly Love basketball freaks. Of the Big Five, Villanova, Pennsylvania, LaSalle, St. Joseph's and Temple, which team has won more championships in the prestigious Quaker City Tournament since its 1961 beginning...
...second-and third-generation inheritors of a faith tend to reduce a passion into a habit. Short on spirit, long on technicality, they are the lettermen. Abruptly jumping 100 years, switching the scene to Pennsylvania, and abandoning historical characters, De Hartog introduces as his letterman a New World Quaker businessman named Isaac Woodhouse. This Early American success figure may have been sober, industrious and honest even with Indians. But, in De Hartog's words, he also showed a positive "genius for compromise." Quaker slaveowners, for instance, intimidated slaves by showing whips without ever actually using them-a fine distinction...
...Quaker contingent also included forward Larry Houston and backs Bill Straub, Tom Liebermann and Don Ries, all on the second team...