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Word: short (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against Penn last year, the varsity suffered from overconfidence, but scored a 5-1 victory in a match cut short by rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Favored In Tennis Meet | 4/19/1958 | See Source »

...curtain-raiser of the evening was a rather disquieting short opera, The Poor Sailor, by Darius Milhaud. The libretto, by Jean Cocteau, is a weird, disturbing story which is reinforced by a sinister, but otherwise undistinguished score...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Divertimento and The Poor Sailor | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

...Smith. The omission of footnotes makes it difficult to judge the scope of research, but the length itself indicates that this cannot be the significant work on Smith. It is not quite clear just what Handlin did intend to do, but he has succeeded in writing a short account of the rise and fall of one American Catholic politician...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Handlin Scans Al Smith With One Eye on 1960 | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

...single by Elliott Fineman scored Goodnow from second for the first M.I.T. run. It was all Oeler needed, but the Engineers added an insurance tally in the sixth. Neil Fitzpatrick walked, moved to second when Paul Larson walked and came across on Eric Hasseltine's bloop single to short right...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: M.I.T. Baseball Team Defeats Varsity Squad With Two-Hit Shutout | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

Then followed the most bizarre play of the game. Pinch-hitter Dave Borken-hagen tapped a grounder to short. The shortstop threw high to second, missing the force play; the second baseman over-threw first trying to make the out there; and finally the pitcher, who retrieved the ball, threw wide to the plate trying to catch Hathaway, and even Borken-hagen scored on this final error...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Crimson Nine Defeats Brandeis In Loosely Played 20-8 Contest | 4/17/1958 | See Source »

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