Word: slews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the Women in White made all the moves last fall to change their upper echelon country club image while trying to improve on a 10-7 1976-77 slate, a new coach and a slew of top flight freshman only managed a typical 10-5 season and fourth place finish in the Ivy League...
...With the help of a handful of regular advertisers and a skeleton staff, he has transformed it into the still small but unabashedly aggressive Capital Reporter (circ. 6,000). Politics is the paper's forte, and Minor's love. His uncanny eye for wrongdoing, along with a slew of sources developed during his 30 years with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, has breathed life into the paper's catchy motto: ONCE A WEEK, BUT NEVER WEAKLY...
...winning the Belmont, Affirmed added $110,580 to his purses, raising his total winnings to $1,133,807. He is the youngest millionaire in racing history. His victory came a year and a day after Seattle Slew won his crown. The two colts are the first back-to-back Triple Crown winners in racing history, and, with Secretariat (1973), the second and third in six seasons. The remarkable conjunction marks a halcyon period for the three-year-olds' classics. Eleven years passed between the first winner, Sir Barton (1919). and Gallant Fox (1930); a full quarter-century separated...
Dales was swirling his irons with a ragtime rhapsody to the piping winds and looked like he would run away with individual scoring honors. Then his putting touch began to unravel and he missed a slew of putts by about the width of a gnat's eyelash...
...sigh, however, was more of a shudder, or perhaps a gulp of disbelief. It quickly became evident that Rosovsky and the Faculty Council were not fooling around; the reform was vast, bespeaking a change in the philosophy of education. Professors and the Committee on Undergraduate Education have proposed a slew of amendments--many of which have been neutralized by a heavily pro-Core Faculty Council. In a recent Crimson poll, about half of the professors questioned said they would not vote for the Core Curriculum in its present form. Students have organized two groups--one objecting to the idea...