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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MASSACHUSETTS at HARVARD--The Crimson is healthy and charged-up following last week's win over Columbia. The Minutemen have size--decisively--but also lost to Villanova pathetically two weeks ago, the same Wildcat team that woeful Boston College stomped last week. In 1978, UMass lost to Villanova, beat Maine, and then lost to Harvard. This year, they've lost to Villanova and beaten Maine--so...In the name of history repeating itself and eclairs, Harvard 26, UMass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eclair in Your Ear | 9/29/1979 | See Source »

...that he was not accomplishing much of anything by stimulating his wife's navel. The naive husband may sound like a caricature concocted at a sex therapists' meeting, but for Mikhail Stern, a dissident Soviet physician now living in France, the story is poignantly symptomatic of the woeful sexual lives of most Soviet citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sex in the Kremlin's Shadow | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Saturday's win marked a distinct contrast with the Crimson loss to Towson State University of Maryland Friday night in the semifinals. In that game, Harvard shot a woeful 27 per cent from the floor and added 23 turnovers...

Author: By Susan D. Chira and Jeffrey R. Toobin, S | Title: Crimson B-Ballers Shoot to Third Place At EAIAW Division One A Tournament | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Tough Crimson defense plunged the Brown hoopsters in a deep freeze on offense. Trish Wurtz, the towering Bruin center, could manage only five for 15 and Toni Lagos sank a woeful one of 11 field goal attempts. As a team, Brown shot 16 for 62, a woeful 26-per-cent mark...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Cagers Rout Brown in Tourney Opener | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

...this intellectual dilly-dallying left the actual story line in woeful shape. Particularly in Gotterdammerung, there are major inconsistencies--most spectacularly, it seems the gods who expire in a blaze of flame and music at the very end need not perish at all, since the ring which had doomed them is back in the hands of its rightful owners...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Vaguely Wagner | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

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