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...fist half, the Crimson showed a little offensive spark, getting off three shots compared with the Elis' five, but neither team could tally...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Strong Yale Squad Delivers Loss to W. Booters, 1-0; Title Appears Unlikely for Crimson | 10/21/1992 | See Source »

...Paul is the spark plug. He carried the ball. He was a teaching fellow for two years and head teaching fellow last year so he saw several years of a steadily changing lab," Herschbach said. "He still wasn't satisfied. He knew what didn't work and he cut that all out and gave a new kind of experience to students...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Chem Students Swing On Vines in Laboratory | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

Those means did not for long remain unemployed. Assassinations in Sarajevo in 1914 lit a spark that set off an unprecedented explosion of destruction and death. The Great War did more than devastate a generation of Europeans. It set the tone -- the political, moral and intellectual temper -- for much that followed. Once the carnage (more than 8.5 million military deaths alone) had ended, the tectonic aftershocks began to reverberate around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Astonishing 20th Century | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...much worse. But that is exactly what Western officials fear is likely to occur when Belgrade turns its attention to Kosovo, the predominantly Albanian province that is a disputed part of southern Serbia. A U.S. analyst says Serbian "ethnic cleansing" there is "inevitable"; a senior Administration official predicts the spark that ignites a bloody Kosovo war could come in "the next two or three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ever Greater Serbia | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...Harvard women's soccer team traveled to the University of Massachusetts and played like they were missing a spark plug, eventually losing...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Massachusetts Upends W. Booters, 2-0, in Bay State Grudge March | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

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