Word: riper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth's strong points are Van Riper, a good infield, and its leading hitter, Captain George Becker, the shortstop. Poor hitting and erratic outfielding were responsible for Green losses to Cornell and Holy Cross, the latter a team that the varsity beat 3 to 0 earlier in the season...
...Dick Van Riper, the Green's top hurler, should provide the answer. A strong right hander, Van Riper pitched one of the Ivy League's best games of the year when he lost to a strong Yale team 1 to 0 in the ninth. Left-hander Dom Repetto, who has beaten Northeastern, Tufts, and Brown this year, will start for the Crimson...
...first and second singles, however, Ben Heckscher and Cal Place won easily over Ken Van Riper and Jerry Evans, 3 to 0. Lee Folger and Dwight Davis each took 3-1 decisions at fifth and ninth singles respectively...
...cannot be relied on. While the Communists have so far failed to make any serious attempt to seize power in Iran (they may have decided that it is smarter to stay in opposition and sabotage the government instead of being saddled with government responsibility themselves), Iran is becoming a riper and more inviting plum for the Reds every week the deadlock continues. Said one Briton last week: "After all, it might be better to lose Anglo-Iranian and keep Iran...
Wrote the Sunday Observer's careful Eric Blom: "The same salty sea tang of Peter Grimes is there with . . . riper humanity, more compassionate understanding, expressed in a way impossible to achieve except through music...