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...General Manager Lou Mohs. "Sometimes it looks as though it's off to one side-but then it starts searching for the net. Style? Barnett doesn't have any. But who's going to mess with that shot?" On his follow-through, Barnett watches the ball wend its wiggly way toward the basket. His familiar cry, "Fall back, baby!" is a signal to teammates that no matter how bad the shot looks, it is a sure score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Sixth Man | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

...everything else weren't enough, the Harvard rifle team wend and beat its Yale counterpart Saturday, 1401-1394. The maximum team score is 1500 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Riflers Beat Bulldog Squad Easily | 11/26/1962 | See Source »

...start backing (the country road past the entrance to Glen Ora is definitely one way). The tourist approach will probably change as the weather improves. Virginia's Historic Garden Week and the Middleburg Races in April bring a flush of tourists, even in normal times. These will, undoubtedly, wend their way to Glen Ora, but all they'll see will be the gatehouse entrance, the top of the roof of the main house, and a couple of miles of tortured stone walls on either side of the country road past the farm. Part of the Peace Corps could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia: Social Notes from Glen Ora | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

swathes a-swaying? Where are the swains to wend through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Major Minor Poet | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Chipped beef is moving in to replace golden apples in the Lowell House dining hall, sneaker-clad feet are beginning to wend their way toward libraries instead of rehearsals, and the College's Herculean theatre season at last draws to a thumping close. At this point the stage-struck undergraduate, like the Wall Street speculator in 1929 or the Davy Crockett fan in 1955, naturally wonders just how long the boom is going to last. Is theatre activity at Harvard just beginning a long and significant golden age, or have students merely spouted Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apples | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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