Word: aceing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Junior ace John Birtwell, the 1999 Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, led the way, pitching much better than his 2-3 record might suggest while boasting the lowest ERA on the staff...
...then Wildcat freshman ace Lauren Schwendimann, who relieved Brown in the third, pitched her way out of the second-and-third, no-out jam. She retired Godfree, Abeles and McKendry in a row to escape without Harvard building a substantial lead...
EDITORS NOTE: Most students have speculated, at some point or another, whether it is possible to ace Harvard exams without actually studying. In 1950, The Crimson published "Beating the System," by Donald Carswell '50, which seemed to provide an answer. The piece won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951, and since then The Crimson has proudly reprinted Carwell's work as a service to its readers. In 1962, one anonymous grader was irked enough to write a lengthy reply...
...began borrowing at two other payday-lending firms before turning to Ace, where she was "astonished at the number of senior citizens that were coming in each month." In a typical transaction, she borrowed $200 for 12 days and paid a $30 fee--an annual interest rate of 456%. If she missed a payment, she says, she would owe an additional $30. "By the end of the month," she says, "I would have no money." Finally, a distressed Rowings, who had always believed in paying her debts but was worn down by the endless dunning calls from bill collectors...
...case, Time Warner Cable chairman Joe Collins held an apparent ace. He could shut down access to Disney's ABC network on TW systems at the beginning of May, the "sweeps month," which determines ad rates for the coming broadcast season. But if Collins did play that card, Disney executives surely realized, the public relations victory would be theirs. If you begin with the premise that people don't like their cable company, it would have been hard for TW to win a hearts-and-minds-of-the-public battle with Attila...