Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trip, which culminated in a seventh-place finish at the European Games August 23-26 in Moscow, began on the fetid waters of the Charles last Fall. In the 12 months that ensued, the Radcliffe road story took the team up and down the East Coast, to St. Catharine's in Ontario, to London and Nottingham, England, and, finally, to Moscow...
Despite the disappointment of finishing seventh out of eight teams, Radcliffe was not demoralized by its performance. "It was really an amazing showing to go over there and do as well as we did," Baker said last weeks. "Every race was closely fought, and even though we came in seventh, our time was only about 10 seconds behind the first-place Russians...
...people will claim that he was drafted because of "fantastic" statistics. Crone, the only Ivy League quarterback picked by the pros in the draft last year, finished seventh in Ivy League passing last year, completing the lowest percentage of passes and throwing the most interceptions enroute to breaking the Harvard career interception record. He also ran 56 times for 140 yards...
EVIL RETURNS. The devil, it can be reliably reported, is alive and well. He no longer appears in his ancient theological raiment; he is more subtly lodged in the human personality-a seventh circle of the psyche-where he is currently known as the instinct of aggression. Such is the description he has been given by ethologists like Konrad Lorenz and Robert Ardrey, who argue that fundamental drives are the basis of human behavior. In the '60s, it was commonly supposed that the devil could be banished by improving human institutions, but he seems scarcely daunted by such superficial...
...powers, who saw than even with the lure of Cambridge and John Kenneth Galbraith he could only entice a limited number of stellar swimmers into the Cambridge-Harvard web, who realized reluctantly but perceptively nonetheless, in two years where others had taken more, that he could never rise above seventh or eight in national swimming ranks if he maintained his Cambridge residence, who foresaw that the prospects for a new and dynamic East Coast swimming program featuring his stocky shoulders and butch cut standing, thrusting out above the crowd, was just too much of an unreality when he wanted waking...