Word: thirteenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the plate was developed, the graduate student announced, "Now I'm going to look for comets." Bok, amused, chuckled. "Ha, ha, everyone looks for comets." But upon inspection Bappu spotted one, and Gordon A. Newkirk '50 and Bok confirmed his discovery. The comet, of only the thirteenth magnitude, is now known as the Bappu-Bok-Newkirk comet...
...Yardling hockey team rolled to its thirteenth straight victory by smothering Brown, 6-0. For the Crimson, Dick Fischer led the way with a hat trick. The freshman wrestlers decisively downed Exeter, 21-9, as Paul Striker (137 lbs.), Joe Noble (145 lbs.), and Tedo Francis (Unlimited), all pinnned their opponents. ponents...
...ambitious young college graduate, a working knowledge of Culbertson on Contract, and a limber swing off the seventh too would clearly be more advantageous than whatever he can remember of English Villages in the Thirteenth Century, and his hard-earned skill in step tests. Harvard's avowed objective is to produce "whole men," and "well-rounded members of society"--here is the administration's golden opportunity to accomplish this goal...
Another controversy that Audience's second issue provoked centers around a thirteenth century Provencal poem by Girault de Bornelh. Graduate student Stephen Orgel claims that Norman Shapiro's recent translation in "a Cambridge literary journal," leaves out the final, and crucial, stanza. To his amusing remarks on the poem's translations Orgel adds, "as a pendant to Mr. Shapiro's translation," his own spirited rendering...
...varsity copped seven out of the top ten places, with only Tufts managing to insert two runners and M.I.T., one. Brown's top man, Becker, wound up in thirteenth place...