Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Harvard was short-handed for only three minutes, due to an interference call on Bruin defenseman Gary Fatyniuk, the Crimson had to stave off considerable pressure during that span to preserve their 2.1 lead...
...since 1969. In the face of soaring costs, why did LIFE continue to publish for four unprofitable years? At a valedictory staff meeting, Hedley Donovan, editor in chief of Time Inc., gave the reason: "We persevered as long as we could see any realistic prospects, within a reasonable time span, of a turn-around in LIFE's economy." Those prospects were extinguished this fall with melancholy prognoses for decreased circulation and advertising pages. These, coupled with postal-rate increases (amounting to 170% over five years) made the end inevitable. At the meeting, the last of LIFE...
...Terriers upped their lead to three on a power-play goal at 4:18 of the second period, and it looked as though it would be a long afternoon for the freshmen. But five minutes later, Harvard rallied to score three goals in the span of 58 seconds...
BOREDOM, OF COURSE, is the great difficulty, and the play's object must be to infuse some kind of interest and meaning into life, to fill the unforgiving span between the raising and the lowering of the curtain. That effort requires constant shifts in tone and attitude, from politeness to frenzy, from despair to humor. The characters, drawn together from a series of stock circus and stage types, continually try on roles, haggle over phrases and actions, force each other to react. To pass the time, they stage themselves, singing, arguing, lyricizing-and, in what emerges as the heart...
Navy, Penn and Princeton respectively, figure to threaten the Crimson's success, which last season included a winning record of 172 out of 180 individual matches. All of these challenges come on foreign courts within just a two week span near the end of the year...