Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Crimson fought back mightily, the Praying Colonels held fast and preserved their triumph. Newspapers all over the country were quick to proclaim Centre's win as an upset. As years passed, the story of coach Charlie Moran's little country boys who prayed in the locker room before going out onto the field spread, and the 1921 game became a football legend...
Only a superlative, emotion-packed effort by the entire team allowed the Crimson to eke out a 10-3 triumph over Yale in the season's final game. The battered and exhausted Crimson was relieved to see one of its roughest campaigns draw to a close...
...freshman meet, the Yardlings should triumph. UMass' number one freshman, Dave Hasbrock, ran two and three-fourths miles against UConn and B.U. in a fair 15:02. The Crimson's Ed Hamlin should take first today, and Glen Rodgers, Jim Bonnar, and Tony Voorheis should provide ample support...
...love. Their tone is sophisticated; they never spell words out, and use many that are foreign. Their joking is educated, with here a lurking bit of Wordsworth, there a pun on Kyd. They can be most lively when most deadpan, and most deadly when most daft. But their triumph rests on their total effect. Delightful as their songs can be (one is about an Oxford-bred cannibal who no longer likes eating people), the evening would grow a bit becalmed were it not for Flanders' animated patter. And winning as his patter can be-not least his account...
...years with Actress Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell, the play crackled with the thrust and parry of Shavian wit neatly done in German. But for once G.B.S. himself was being upstaged by an even more powerful drawing card: famed Viennese Actress Elisabeth Bergner, 59, emerging from semiretirement to score the triumph of her career...