Word: third
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Unfortunately for the Harvard golf team, that said it all. The linksters couldn't keep their heads down on the greens of the Kirkbrae Country Club in Lincoln, R.I., and as a result, finished third in a tri-meet with UMass and Providence. The Minutemen triumphed with a 477 score, with the Friars a mere stroke back at 478 and the Crimson four back...
Except for three third-set tiebreaker losses--two of them on the final points at first and second singles--the racquetmen would have registered a whitewash over the Big Green, which had entered the contest...
...never understand the mind of the baseball player, or the workings of a team, for that matter. How a squad can pitch one day and hit the next and do neither on the third. But luckily that's not important to us, and if it were, it wouldn't be nearly as important as the non-serious part of their world. Watch your step...
Pride and excellence go hand in hand; one promotes the other. Black solidarity is Professor Kilson's term for what is becoming Third World solidarity. It is neither thumb-sucking behavior nor a cop-out, but rather a positive expression of shared interests that demonstrates an increasing potential for meaningful interaction between culturally distinct groups...
Take the following example. An infant, perhaps not yet verbal, sits in a highchair attempting to eat with a fork. The fork suddenly gets out of his hand, falling to the floor. Someone kindly hands him another and shortly it too falls to the floor. The third time we are all watching. The child slowly leans toward the side on his chair and intently follows the fork as he again drops it to the floor. Has he experienced directly some order in the world? He is no Newton. He cannot write it down. He may not even be able...