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...yesterday's first playoff game, the referees shortened the game by approximately eight minutes because of the rain, but Cabot-North still managed to score on three of its five possessions in a 20-0 romp over the Flames at Soldiers Field...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: Cabot-North, K-Land Advance | 11/13/1985 | See Source »

...closest match of the four was nonetheless a romp, with Smith walloping Susan Taylor...

Author: By John Zilcosky, | Title: Netwomen Smash Dartmouth; Princeton Next for Harvard | 5/3/1985 | See Source »

...perhaps more precisely, they adored Harrison and Colbert, who, at 77 and 81, may be the world's most accomplished practitioners of the all-but-lost art of amusing repartee and witty exit lines. Their last Broadway romp was The $ Kingfisher in 1978. "I go back to the age of Methuselah!" says Harrison, with what sounds like genuine pride. "When I first went to London to work in the '20s, I loved watching the great high-comedy actors of the period, like Gerald du Maurier. To my mind, they were the epitome of what acting is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rex Harrison: I Go Back to Methuselah! | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

Four Crimson home runs later, the batsmen had recorded their fourth straight victory, an 11-1 romp over the Friars. Three games shy of the mid-season point, Harvard is 10-4, Providence dropped...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Batsmen Make Themselves at Home(rs), 11-1 | 4/13/1985 | See Source »

...flavor of the ballgame changed dramatically over the course of the seven innings. What began as a pitchers' duel evolved into a Harvard romp, and then into a dramatic Smith comeback...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Smith Comeback Capsizes Batswomen, 7-6 | 4/12/1985 | See Source »

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