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Word: thirdly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record, after a pre-trip upset of Rutgers, Harvard lost its first round game in the California Winter Classic to host University of California at Santa Barbara, 88-62. The next night, three men scored 20 points or more as the Crimson bounced back to take third place, beating Loyola of New Orleans, 95-84. Later in the week, Harvard lost to a physically rugged San Jose State squad, 91-75 and San Francisco...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Quintet, Skaters Finish Holiday Schedules | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

Harvard beat Loyola for third place behind Gustavson. Dover, and Hardy. The first ten minutes of this game saw the Crimson's fast break functioning brilliantly, spiced by deadly outside shooting and tough rebounding. If the description sounds somewhat overdone, well, you had to see it to believe...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Quintet, Skaters Finish Holiday Schedules | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

...officials inadvertently deprived the Los Angeles Rams of a down in the closing seconds of a close game, Rozelle suspended them for the remainder of the season. In an earlier game, the same officials, who keep count of the plays by looping a rubber band around their first, second, third or fourth finger, lost track and had to call the press box to find out what down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: The Men in the Striped Shirts | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...Rothschilds often have the same or similar first names. Edmund is English; his third cousin Edmond is French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment: Rothschilds in the Pacific | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

Olsen devotes more than the first third of Silence on Monte Sole to designing the set and lining up the cast for the tragedy to follow. In the balance of the book, the incidents of the massacre unfold with numbing predictability. Time and again Olsen describes how people escaped bullets by burrowing under the corpses of their families or playing dead. Once more he indirectly states one of the irreducible lessons of war: that the human body loses its integrity when struck by pieces of metal moving at high velocity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Lines | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

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