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...Beerbohm once concocted a curtain line for which there was no play: "I'm leaving for the Thirty Years' War!" Poor Max. He did not live to see his conceit turned to good use. His line could -and should-be attached to The Last Valley like a tin can tied to a jalopy...
Briggs hit the tin six times in the second game, twice after being tied at 12-12, and dropped the game. But Briggs won a close 15-13 third game with a hard rail shot that brought a "Wow" from Atwood. The sophomore ran away with the final game...
...King James' bench of learned men. They wrote when English was young, vital and untutored. English in 1971 is an old, overworked language, freshened sporadically only by foreign borrowings or the flickering, vulgar piquancy of slang. All of us-from the admen with their jingles to the tin-eared scholars with their jargon-are victims as well as victimizers of the language we have inherited...
...victory by Alan Quasha over Jacobs would have maintained Harvard's one-point lead in the team competition, but Quasha started slowly and fell victim to an extremely "hot" opponent. Pushing the match into a fifth game, Quasha hit the tin three times after 11-9, and lost...
...victory in the Condon-Jaime Gonzalez match in the "B" division. Gonzalez hit several fine drop shots to win two of the first three games. But the senior racquetman played defensively in the fourth game, and when he tried to rally in the fifth, his drop shot hit the tin...