Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dyke Benjamin, barely recovered from a leg injury which has hobbled him all season, ran a splendid 9:28.9 in the two-mile to finish second to John Morrison, who set a Yale and Coxe Cage record of 9:26.3. Benjamin had not been able to run at all until ten days ago, when he began to work out on grass. Competing with virtually no practice, he battled Morrison down to the last laps...
...British Critic Francis Toye wrote of Macbeth, it is "a splendid and uncommonly interesting failure"-very much worth reviving and seeing...
Leverett, of course, has long faced an unfortunate lack of popularity partially due to architectural features: it lacks a splendid tower and its dining room is a huge reverberating cavern. By now, Leverett's problem has received due recognition from the Administration, which has provided grants to remodel the dining hall, besides extending the House with the new Leverett "Towers." It seems only just for the Administration to pay similar attention to the perhaps less pressing, but nevertheless important lacunae in the physical plants of other Houses...
...fast and exciting mile race, Jed Fitzgerald finished first by two steps, leading Big Green captain Mike Kistler to the wire in a splendid 4:22.3. Old reliables Joel Landau and Art Cahn were easy victors in the high hurdles...
Mikoyan's road-show sell got a good house in Cleveland. There, he presented a gift of a Russian troika (three splendid, high-stepping white horses and carriage) to his host, aging (75) Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, was invited for a ride, no sooner got one foot on the little carriage step than the whole shebang lit off around a snowy track at full speed. Jaunty and chipper, he hung on, alighted at last with a gallant swoop of his hat, as Mrs. Eaton cooed: "You're the bravest man I've ever heard of." Eaton, who regards...