Word: tuned
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...Life in New Orleans, attests, was the ceremonial vigor of the people. Ranging from almost European pale to jet black, the Negroes of New Orleans had many social clubs, parades and picnics. With rags, blues, snippets from opera, church music and whatever else, a wide breadth of rhythm and tune was created to accompany or stimulate every kind of human involvement. Before becoming an instrumentalist, Armstrong the child was either dancing for pennies or singing for his supper with a strolling quartet of other kids who wandered New Orleans freshening up the subtropical evening with some sweetly harmonized notes...
...nation's mosttalented West Coast powers, Harvard was blanked inboth its games. A 3-0 loss to Stanford wasfollowed by a 5-0 humiliation at the hands ofCal-Berkeley. Seven days later, the Crimsonreturned home and took its California frustrationout on Boston University--usually a nationalpowerhouse team--to the tune...
...dominant 35-point, 13-rebound effort from co-captain and Kodak All-American Allison Feaster, Harvard became the first 16th seed in the history of the men's or women's NCAA Tournament to defeat a No. 1 seed, stunning Stanford to the tune of a 71-67 upset in front of a live television audience on ESPN. With one night's work, Harvard entered the realm of prime-time college athletics behind an emphatic and deafening charge whose effects are still resonating nearly three months later and probably will continue to do so for many months to come...
That fall season, however, was only a tune-up for the spring, where the Crimson would face its toughest schedule...
Harvard won both its games, 15-1 over Wellesley and 17-12 over Brown, but the latter win was less convincing than the Crimson would have liked in its tune-up for better competition down the road...