Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson coach Norm Shepard will send four-game winner Dave Brigham to the hill. Righthander Brigham's fast ball has been improving all season, and recently he has been toying with a curve and knuckler that had the Quaker batters swinging wildly in Friday's 8-7 triumph over Penn...
...whip hand, hailed his freedom with debts and extravagances totaling some half a million pounds. Charles died in 1758 in the Seven Years' War, a few months after his precipitous withdrawal by sea from Cherbourg had given France's Duc 'Ai-guillon the exquisite triumph of sending after him "a vessel under a flag of truce to restore the Duke of Marlborough's silver teaspoons which he had left behind in his hurry...
Fresh from its course-record setting victory at Princeton last weekend, the varsity eight, aiming for its third straight triumph of the season, will take on Navy and Pennsylvania over the mile and three-quarters course in the Charles River Basin...
...Nazis had "decided on a 'total' solution of the Jewish question." The operation, says Brand, "was given the official title of 'Night and Fog,' and the German genius for organization now celebrated its most gruesome triumph." Against this, Brand's only weapons were bravery and bribery. The Nazis had discovered that Jews could not only be killed but bought and sold. Thus, by a cruel twist, Brand found himself a specialist in the traffic in human flesh...
Equally heartening was the powerful Freshman eight's triumph at Princeton. Rowing the course at a low 29 1/2 to 30 1/2 the visitors crushed the much higher stroking Tiger crew by five and one half lengths. Their time of 8:48.4 was actually faster than the Princeton varsity's, but the Freshmen had more help from the wind...