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Word: walls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forget the first eight innings; Boston plays for only the last one. Conigliaro knocked a double off the wall inches from a home run. Reggie tied St. Louis with a one-out triple, and won it by tagging up on a short fly and sliding under the throw. Too much...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Bosox Win 3-2 in 9th, Tie Cards in Series | 3/18/1968 | See Source »

Finally there was Germain G. Glidden '36, an artist whose portrait of Harry Cowles hangs in Hemenway Gymnasium. Picking out Glidden's lightening speed as his greatest asset, Cowles, with inspired genius, gave him a tricky three wall shot, the "boast," that only an extraordinarily fast player could risk using. Glidden's matches were always played at a blinding tempo, and he captured the National title in '36, '37, '38, and retired undefeated from national play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The History Of Harvard Sports | 3/18/1968 | See Source »

...fire began in a pan of wax which someone was melting over a hot plate, Mrs. Jo J. Heunemann, dorm resident, said yesterday. The burner was left on overnight, and the wax burst into flame, she added. A wall beside the hot plate was charred, but the fire activated the sprinkler system before any further damage was done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire in Barnard Hall Turns on Sprinklers | 3/11/1968 | See Source »

...longer than to a mountaintop. It was also essential for the researchers to screen out any extraneous radio noise that might interfere with the attenuated, incredibly weak return signals, which, Shapiro says, had "less than a thousandth of the power that is expended by a housefly walking up a wall at a speed of one millimeter a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physics: Probing Einstein with Radar | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...December, sales shot up to a record $155 million and profits rebounded to $2,890,000. Naturally, nobody is more delighted than Norton Simon, a notably tough taskmaster. "Dave has done sensationally considering the time he's been aboard," says Simon. "Canada Dry is a substantially rejuvenated company." Wall Street agrees. From its 1966 low of $19 a share, the company's common stock climbed to $34 early this year on the New York Stock Exchange. The announcement of Sport-Cola sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: A Touch of Effervescence | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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