Word: unexpectedness
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But anyone who finds a Harvard victory beyond improbable doesn’t know the meaning of the word. The correct definition of improbable is 5’9 senior Faiz Shakir, who may have solidified an unexpected reputation as one of the great clutch hitters in Harvard baseball history...
“The water was particularly bad in the first 500 meters,” said Graham O’Donoghue ’02 of the second varsity boat. “It was quite choppy and we had a little trouble with blades hitting water at first...
The victory was made possible by Crimson domination in the first five minutes of the second half in which it scored three of its goals. The first came from Logigian at the left-center of the box on a shot similar to the game-winner and the second came from...
The combination of distorted guitars and trip-hop beats is off-putting at first, but the floating melodies are irresistibly infectious. The strength of the melodies carry the album, and the highlights come when they are combined with unexpected harmonic progressions, as on the chorus of “M?...
The Southerners, flamboyant or saturnine, came from another age. Hoey of North Carolina wore wing collars. Freshman John Kennedy of Massachusetts, thin and glamorous, the millionaire's dreamboat boy, hobbled at the rear of the chamber, on crutches from his back operation. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, remembered now as a...