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...even Halpern’s performance, as well as Petropulous’ four goals and one assist, could not propel Harvard over the twelth-ranked Terriers. BU’s Sarah Dalton and Curro finished the contest with five goals apiece, and in the process Dalton—a senior All-American—broke her school’s career-scoring record with her 191st goal...

Author: By Zachary H. Richner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WEB UPDATE: Terriers Hold on in 17-12 Harvard Loss | 3/22/2009 | See Source »

...those who find the current rules of English too hard to learn should have their spelling labeled variant, not wrong. Smith zeroes in on 10 candidates for variant spellings, culled from his students' most commonly misspelled (or mispelled, as Smith suggests) words. Among them are Febuary instead of February, twelth instead of twelfth and truely instead of truly - all words, he says, that involve confusion over silent letters. When students would ask why there's no e in truly, Smith didn't really have an answer. "I'd say, 'Well, I don't know. ... You've just got to drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making an Arguement for Misspelling | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

Freshman Killian Lonergan paced Harvard's first-year contingent. After running in the top three for the first two miles, he held on to finish seventh with a time of 25:21. Ian Carswell was twelth...

Author: By Daniel Roeser, | Title: Brown Retains Alden Trophy | 10/2/1993 | See Source »

...said of his challenger, "Unfortunately I cannot choose my opponents." Karpov, the quiet, defensive killer shark, kept his hostility in check but brought along a public relations aide to praise his style as one that "belongs to the next century." The series will move to Leningrad after the twelth game. Will Karpov exact revenge? Not according to London bookies, who rate Kasparov an 8-13 favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 11, 1986 | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...took fourth and twelth in the nordic events and second in-the nordic relay and had two top to finishers in both the slalom and go on slalom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

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