Word: stanza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard grabbed the lead early in the first period and extended it to 5-0 before the Stanza ended, peppering the Warrior goalie with 18 shots...
With five minutes elapsed in the final stanza, a Pat McInally punt pinned Brown deep in its own territory. Moving from the 16-yard line, Beatrice then picked out Farnham racing down the right sideline, and Brown's drive to victory had begun...
Auden was always more interested in experimenting with syntax than with things like meter and stanza and he was content to pour his unusual grammar into the molds of sonnet, quatrain and blank verse. His chief experiments in Thank You, Fog are with verbs. Poets who write in English, he tells us in one of his "Shorts," "can very easily turn nouns, if we wish, into verbs." He proceeds to do so with gusto, not only to nouns but almost every unit of syntax he can get his hands on. Some examples from a single new poem, "Archeology:" "vacancied long...
What looked to many in the Soldiers Field crowd of 17,500 to be a Harvard rout then changed complexion rapidly, as Crusader signalcaller Bob Morton led a convincing Holy Cross drive through the Harvard defense, culminating in a touchdown at 2:16 of the second stanza...
...another lapse of baseball ability, Penn outfielders collided with each other when fielding Hogan's hit to right center, allowing Ric LaCivita to score Harvard's fourth run of the stanza...