Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admissions office ban on coaches' recruiting trips has, in the eyes of a few coaches, put Harvard at a major disadvantage in its attempts to woo scholar-athletes away from other Ivy League schools. Restic says that each year, the football team loses prospects to the personal appeals of rival coaches, and adds that "'the competition is getting heavier." Baseball coach Park agrees. "There's nothing like personal contact as far as I'm concerned. We feel we still get the good student-athletes, we get great athletes. But when a guy's in the kid's house, talking...
...their swallow-tailed coats and frilly shirts, their long summer gowns and free-flowing hairdos, they look like characters from a bacchanal in Byron's own early 19th century London. They rival one another not only in elegance and extravagance but in sheer stamina, for the evening is likely to begin with dinner at a chic restaurant and end with a stylish breakfast at dawn. The revelers are not the bored and idle rich of the land, although tabs run high. The partygoers are high school students who are reviving-and revising-that grand and time-honored institution...
...investigation against Stones has the amateurs sprinting to tax lawyers. From them, some of the athletes have discovered for the first time that IRS records are confidential and not available to rival promoters or amateur officials. Says one track man, now suddenly wiser: "The IRS doesn't care about amateurism; they just want their cut. I'm going to file from now on." Haydon agrees. "It's not a good idea to hide money from the IRS," he says. "The underworld figured that out a long time...
...possible that there are textiles somewhere of a refinement and elaboration to rival the ones now on show at New York's Japan Society. Possible, but unlikely. The exhibition, 145 robes, masks and accessories made for the classical Nō theater by 17th and 18th century Japanese craftsmen, comes from the collection of a family which, next to the Emperor's, was for more than 250 years the most exalted in Japan-the Tokugawa. The shogun, or warlord, leyasu Tokugawa unified Japan at the beginning of the 17th century, welding its scattered feudal clans into a military ruling...
...routed Navy, 22-6, to rack up its 28th straight triumph and to move one step closer to its second consecutive title. Meanwhile in Baltimore, Hopkins jumped out to an early lead against old rival Maryland and cruised to a 22-12 victory...