Word: strength
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ordinarily, intercollegiate squash matches involve nine players from each team. However, this tournament divided the teams into only five players per squad. Because Harvard's main strength is in its depth, the tournament format favored the opposition...
Harvard, the team would have you believe, had its season in gear on the strength of three mediocre wins over Northeastern, Hartford and Santa Clara, and a single Ivy win over Cornell (with downplayed losses to St. Joseph's and Navy sandwiched in between...
...This early in the season, we didn't need to slow anyone's return to full strength," Schotte said. "Everyone pulled through, and with this small team, it was a fantastic performance...
Elizabeth Strout tests the strength of that umbilical bond in her first novel, Amy and Isabelle (Random House; 304 pages; $22.95). In the small New England town of Shirley Falls, Isabelle Goodrow is a single mother with a shameful secret: her daughter Amy, 16, is illegitimate. As if in atonement for her youthful fling, Isabelle is now, in her early 30s, the image of propriety, maintaining perfect posture and an immaculate French twist. She craves respectability but is too poor for the upper echelon of Shirley Falls and too proud to befriend her co-workers at the mill. Amy shares...
...kind of scary because it was this experimental level twice the MRI strength... They locked me in this little tube for two hours and I was not allowed to move," said Stern, who is also a Crimson editor...