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...rocky, 3.1-mile course through Franklin Park, resplendent in fall afternoon colors, was a harsh proving ground for Harvard's new, inexperienced runners but a familiar romp for the vets...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Harriers Defeat UMass; Linsley Shines in Opener | 9/24/1980 | See Source »

...Williams' .406 season in 1941 has a hitter been so close to the elusive .400 mark this late in the season (as of last Friday, Brett's batting average was an eye-popping .402). To the Royals' fine young third baseman, the game is a romp, a rollicking ride toward the record-books. Since recapturing his form after an early season ankle injury, Brett has been on a batting tear that has lifted the Royals to the best record in baseball (78 games won, 44 losses) and a formidable 15½-game lead over the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Romping Toward the Recordbooks | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...Love Story," projected at the Science Center. You can engage in some projections of your own: maybe you too will one day enjoy a romp through the snow in front of Emerson Hall. At the very least, you will come close to being killed by a maniacal Boston driver a few times in your college career. It's a good thing Erich Segal teaches at Yale; he's just one more object for derision...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Week Gets Weaker | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

Messed up little boys and girls are not at all uncommon in the grass-green and asphalt-black world of suburbia. They romp cheerily among the trees and mopeds, chattering about Betamaxes and analysts. Often it's so hard to distinguish one from another amid the swirl of LaCoste and Adidas, that concerned parents just scoop up a convenient horde at sunset, hoping to extract their own offspring by dinner time...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Next Great Net Star | 8/1/1980 | See Source »

Game five saw a 5-1 Islander romp and Clark Gillies pounding Dave Schultz into the Spectrum ice and forcing him to endure the humiliation of needing a teammate, Andre Dupont, to come to his rescue: back on Long Island, before a national television audience (those were days when the NHL had a contract with NBC), New York gave their fans a 2-1 Mother's Day gift and deadlocked the series at three games apiece...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The I's Have It--So Far | 5/13/1980 | See Source »

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