Word: winded
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Each half had to be handled completely independently. The Crimson had the upper hand in the first half—playing with the wind at their backs—but after switching sides for the second half of play Holy Cross gained the advantage...
...scene shifted to Sanders Theater later that evening, as the band was performing at its 85th Reunion Concert. The group, now nearly 200 strong, would take the stage at the end of the performance, as The Harvard Jazz Band and The Harvard Wind Ensemble—which included the much anticipated playing of the world’s biggest tuba and an appearance by Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71—kicked off the evening’s events...
...Gross wrapped up his narration and the wind ensemble finished its final piece, a thunderous beat of drums rose from the floor below the stage. Band members began ascending the steps up to the main platform, pouring onto the stage in a measured fashion. More and more took to the stairs until the stage was completely full. The alumni and students crammed closer together in order to fit everyone in, a feat that was made more difficult by the presence of bulky instruments such as tubas and drums...
...worth about 2¢, but could fetch roughly $1 as processed fiber. "I strongly believe," Emery says, "that in a very short period of time, processed poultry feathers will be worth more per pound than poultry meat." Then again, the technology is still in its infancy, and feather fiber could wind up as the next frozen-milk concentrate, an earlier ARS innovation that was supposed to put an end to those late-night runs to the store for milk. That's the risk of trying to be ahead of your time. --With reporting by Leslie Whitaker/Wheaton
...look like complete idiots. So let's look at a few more. In 1883 Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society and no mean scientist himself, predicted that "X rays will prove to be a hoax." When Gary Cooper turned down the Rhett Butler role in Gone With the Wind, he is said to have remarked, "I'm just glad it will be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his face and not Gary Cooper." "Everything that can be invented, has been invented," announced Charles H. Duell, commissioner of the U.S. Patents Office...