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Harvard killed a penalty with five minutes remaining, and Cornell strove for a final chance when coach Dick Bertrand pulled Chrastina at 19.05. The Big Red could not beat Petrovek, and with one second left Harvard's Dave Gauthier flipped the puck the length of the ice into an open net to close out the contest...

Author: By Elizabeth P. Eggert, | Title: Icemen Storm Back to Upend Big Red | 3/8/1975 | See Source »

...everything but sell popcorn last Friday night. Its fourth annual Midnight Concert, a late-night supper of light, easily-digestible music, strove too hard for broad mass appeal. The program--the most commercial work of Benjamin Britten, the showiest piece of Debussy, and one of the plainest concertii of Mozart--was all butter and no salt...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Murky Midnights | 12/18/1974 | See Source »

...ancient civilization that had occasionally seen Emperors step aside for men they considered worthier than themselves, this Emperor strove to be come a model of excellence. "All the Ancients used to say that the Emperor should concern himself with general principles, but need not deal with the smaller details," he wrote. K'ang-hsi dis agreed: "Failure to attend to details will end up endangering your greater vir tues." It is still excellent advice, for pipe fitters as well as Presidents with an imperial bent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beautiful Bureaucrat | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...Giscard is unprecedented as a First Lady in other respects. Mme. de Gaulle, known to her countrymen as "Aunt Yvonne," was something of a bluenose who strove to keep French newsstands free of "sexy" magazines. By contrast, Claude Pompidou, 62, gave chic parties for le tout Paris and dressed in the latest fashions. Mme. Giscard has little interest in clothes. During the campaign, she wore the same sweater-over-blouse combination so often that it started to look like a uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: France's Premi | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...LORD he reigned in Ov1 Ofys³ sphere, Ful oft strove he to mak thyngs parfait clere.4 But wonder, though it get him legal scrapes, He, verraily, refus to clere The Tapyse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The Waterbury Tales | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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