Word: tightens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elis are 1-9 in the Eastern Intercollegiate League and 11-14 in overall play, while the varsity's record is 0-10 and 5-13. But Shepard and the players think they have a good chance to win tonight, if they can stop Yale's fast break and tighten their own man-to-man defense...
Lowell House best Eliot, 47 to 37, in 'A' league basketball last night to tighten its hold on first place in the league. The Elephants' Dan Steiner was high scorer with 14 points, followed by Larry Corser of Lowell with ten, Kirkland and Dudley had previously been tied with Lowell for first place...
Eliot House won the only game on yesterday's intramural schedule by shutting out the Lowell hockey team, 3 to 0, at the Boston Skating Club. The victory helped the Elephants tighten their grip on first place in the House loop...
...Outdoor Overture," written in 1938 for New York's High School of Music and Arts, is about four minutes too long. The middle section lags considerably, and perhaps Mr. Copland will someday see fit to tighten up this otherwise intriguing composition. The orchestra, for the most part, did full justice to the music. Only the brass section, no longer bolstered by Conservatory students, seemed rather weak; it frequently played too loud, and was not always...
...wore leaf-clothes, or lava-lavas . . . They swayed about, clapped their hands, shoulders, legs." Later, Adams was introduced to a local version of the striptease called the pai-pai: "In the pai-pai, the women let their lava-lavas . . . or siapas seem about to fall. The dancer pretends to tighten it, but only opens it so as to show a little more thigh, and fastens it again so low as to show a little more hip. Always turning about and moving with the chorus, she repeats this process . . . showing more legs and hips every time, until the siapa barely hangs...