Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Should the weather be favorable, quarterbacks Bassett and Brian Rapp may be tempted to start a passing duel. Neither has thrown frequently in the past, but both have shown considerable competence in this area. Some aerial motion will probably be necessary to unsettle the strong ground defenses both teams are expected to display...
Played under clear, sunny skies, the game failed to match the ideal weather conditions, Only occasional displays of accurate passing and hard shooting enlivened an otherwise sloppy and dull contest. Yale, in fact, managed to control the play for most of the game, but Harvard's strong defense prevented more Eli scoring...
...College and 'Cliffe administrations could easily reduce the money and safety costs which undergraduates pay for weather depreciation of their bikes and scooters by constructing simple wooden or metal roofed bicycle racks near Radcliffe dorms, and by sheltering a few of the present motor scooter parking areas near the Houses...
...Virgin Islands used to be the place to forget about the factory. The sand is white, the weather right, the pleasures plentiful-and a Pan Am tourist book even advises women visi tors to leave their girdles at home. Now industry is coming to the Virgins, and the results so far are unsettling to many of the islands' 36,000 year-round residents...
...whose clients include the royal family) and from football pools. The pools, playing it safer, give winners only a cut of all the money collected, but the "fixed odds" bookmakers such as Hill set their odds in advance, and sometimes lose more than they take in. Last season terrible weather ("all that bloody ice and snow") ruined odds, postponed football matches, cost Hill a loss of $1,600,000 on his football business. "Fixed odds is a very risky business," says Hill...