Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard golf team trudged through a rain-soaked course, high winds and snow flurries yesterday to a record second-place finish in a triangle match against Tufts and Amherst...
...very well considering the snow, which was a psychological hazard...
That same spirit echoed through Beacon Hill's venerable Athenaeum one snow-swept evening this past winter as more than 500 Bostonians gathered to launch a campaign to raise $125,000 to "save the Shaw." John D. O'Bryant, black president of the Boston school committee, quoted Washington's 1897 speech and added: "In all truth, we have been slow to learn the lesson of that...
Races are still ultimately decided on the snow, however, and last week both Stenmark and Phil Mahre faulted momentarily under the pressure. At Borovets, Bulgaria, a second place in the G.S. would have won the Cup for Phil, but he wobbled in fifth behind Stenmark and the lanky, sandy-haired Zhirov, who won. A day later, a slalom win would have given Stenmark another five points to cushion his lead, but once more Zhirov won, and while a second place would again have wrapped it up for Phil, the wrong Mahre took second. Phil came in third behind his brother...
...Cross eye: a sophisticated senior's statement to a mystified outsider. "Oh, nobody uses money at the Coop": or an accurate assessment of Lamont (squeaky floors) vs. Hilles (empty except during reading period) libraries: or the Independent's paranoia about The Crimson: or the fact that no one shovels snow off Cambridge sidewalks. All of these add up to a remarkably persuasive and amusing portrait of life in these environs...