Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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November 23: On the day of The Game, the Crimson travels to the University of Hartford and knocks off the Lady Hawks, 45-43, in the cagers' season opener. Harvard shows off its depth--which will later play a major factor in the squad's stretch drive--right from day one, as nine different players score...
Before continuing, a word or two on reading period from a student's perspective seems appropriate. During reading period, time begins to lose meaning. Monday is no different from any other day of the week. The dining halls clutter up with students who stretch the ordeal of Harvard food into hours because they do not want to trudge off to the library again. As people sacrifice more and more of their extra-curricular energies to study for finals, the student population adopts a perturbing distortion of life which almost suffocates the individual. The quality of life and spirits of students...
Saturday's meet left no doubt about who deserved the championship rings. In the victory, the Crimson won 13 of 16 events, including one stretch of 10 straight triumphs that opened an insurmountable 78-28 lead...
...Crimson was hurt most in a five-event stretch in which it lost every event. In that period, Cornell showed its domination of the sprint freestyle races when the Big Red took first and second in both the 50 and 100 freestyle events, paced by Randy Sprout's first-place showing in both...
...when he left office), has become virtually a symbol of eternal youth. Unlike many who reach his age and peer back into the past, Reagan is still taking a bead on what lies ahead. Just as Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic Congresses of the 1960s and '70s sought to stretch the upper limits of America's willingness to pay for an expanded Government role in the nation's domestic life, Reagan seeks to test the lower limits of that willingness. By tilting gain at the ramparts of Big Government as he has done so often in the past, he hopes...