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...varsity won the remaining singles with little trouble. Tim Gallwey beat Don Hubbard, 6-3, 6-2, Fred Vinton took Lee Sager, 6-1, 6-0, Jorge Lemann defeated Rush Yelverton, 6-2, 6-2, and Bill Wood blasted John Wood...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Crimson Netmen Blank Army, 9-0 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...play, written in 1930, first produced in 1950, and translated into English by Eric Bentley in 1954, demands an operatic score such as Weill did for Brecht's The Three-Penny Opera and The Ja-Sager. Ned Stuart's brief original music for opening and closing is a step in the right direction, but references in the script to speeches as "songs" should have been deleted...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The Exception and the Rule | 12/20/1957 | See Source »

Stonyhurst's sager Jesuits were more up to date in their psychology. They appointed Charles school ratcatcher-and so conquered his peculiar heart that he wore the Stonyhurst school uniform ("blue-tailed coat with gold buttons and a check waistcoat") on all special occasions until his death at the age of 83. Unfortunately, ratcatching also served to nourish the largest bee that ever buzzed in Charles Waterton's bonnet, i.e., his conviction that the common brown rat had been introduced to England by Protestant King George I. Thenceforth, the exterminating of the "Hanoverian rat" furnished the Squire with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birds & Bigotry | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Most Britons, as Lord Byron once put it, "till by losing rendered sager, will back their own opinions by a wager." Some have even been known to back their wagers by some sage manipulation, like doping a horse or marking cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Macclesfield Stakes | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Other scorers were Brynteson 8, Ham 4, Reifsnyder 2, and Goldsmith 2. Also in the Crimson lineup were: Crosby, Sager, Dailey, Kobush, Mobraaten, Belcher, and Altrocchi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Quintet Victors 71 to 34 In Tuneup Game | 12/5/1946 | See Source »

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