Word: wind
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Well, to begin with, the Scopes trial is not the great fable the rather fictional Inherit the Wind made it out to be. The instigators of the trial were not bluenosed know-nothings wanting to persecute some poor teacher for teaching evolution. They were officials of the American Civil Liberties Union so eager for a test case to overturn a new Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of evolution that they promised to pay the expenses of the prosecution! The A.C.L.U. advertised for a volunteer and found one John Scopes, football coach and science teacher, willing to take...
Today is just another day: coats zipped against the wind, readings furiously skimmed before section, the relentless click of e-mail and problem sets in the basement of the Science Center. There are papers due, office hours to go to, sleep that approaches unseen in the Lamont reading room or in lecture, but nothing terribly out of the ordinary. Another day, its stresses and triumphs, awakes to its own promise...
...Menick, who rushed for a season-high 165 yards on 27 carries, the Crimson led the Tigers 6-3 late in the fourth quarter. But then a 52-yard, wind-aided field goal by Princeton kicker Taylor Northrop with 3:32 left tied the game. On its next possession, led by Menick's rushing, the Crimson drove down to the one-foot-line with seven seconds left. On the last play, Harvard Coach Tim Murphy chose to let Wilford run a sneak instead of allowing Giampaolo to attempt a field goal. The gamble paid off, as Wilford made...
...think for a second that this man does not have a treasure-trove of memories from his first three years. He can recall every detail of his first start--replacing the injured Jay Snowden '96 against Holy Cross in 1996--even right down to the wind speed at Fitton Field...
...originally planned on remaining in the South to play college ball, but he had heard all too often from coaches that at 5'11 and 180 pounds, he lacked the size to play quarterback. Patterson had intended on enrolling at the University of Memphis, but Murphy caught wind of the athletic speedster, and soon enough, TP found his way to the Ivy League...