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Although the Crimson got the run back when Mann homered on a line shot to straightaway left in the top of the fourth, Dartmouth took the lead back for good in the bottom of the inning when Harvard failed to convert a double-play opportunity...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Quiets Big Green | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...momentum coming around the corner and the last straightaway,” Furst said. “It was an exciting finish...

Author: By Samita Mannapperuma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Track Finishes Third at HEPS While Men Struggle | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...content to sit on the sand and watch the guys feel the ocean beneath their feet, an estimated half a million women in the U.S. are taking up the sport (twice as many as in 1996), along with the freewheeling way of life it symbolizes. "Most people get hooked straightaway to the rush of standing up and getting pulled along by the waves," says Australian surfing star Pauline Menczer. "Then the lifestyle comes with it. Once you've experienced both, you can't leave the ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls in the Curl | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...speedy Hale almost tracked the gap-shot down, but was playing too shallow and straightaway in center to catch up with it in time. The hit ignited a three-run rally that gave UMass a 5-3 lead and pinned Saty with the loss...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Saty For Hire: Will Work Weekends | 4/24/2002 | See Source »

Those unfamiliar with Taylor, including ABC announcer Carol Lewis—who worried out loud whether Taylor could hold off Meissner—were left in awe with her toughness down the final straightaway. Taylor herself attributed her first sub-56 second race at NCAAs to the improvement in the second half of her race. That newfound ability to finish, according to Haggerty, is what transformed Taylor from a U.S. semifinalist to a World semifinalist in just one year...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taylor Advances to World Semi-Finals in 400m Hurdles | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

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