Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jeff Campbell was the Crimson's brilliant contender. After dueling with Brandeis's Bill Horton for the opening length of the mile run, Campbell shook off the Judge runner and blazed to a meet record of 4:04.1.
In 1930 the late Samuel Eliot Morison and fellow Historian Henry Steele Commager published their first version of The Growth of the American Republic. The book swiftly became the standard by which competing histories were measured. Now, just as an abridged and updated version of the Morison-Commager classic appears...
"No comment, Howard," mumbled No. 1 ranked Heavyweight Contender George Foreman to his sometime broadcasting colleague Howard Cosell after dropping a unanimous 12-round decision in San Juan, Puerto Rico, last week to 3-to-l underdog Jimmy Young. Young's cover-up tactics and counterpunching created more than...
Until then, the search for sugar substitutes will continue on a largely hit-or-miss basis. One chemical, called aspartame, was found by G.D. Searle & Co. during research on an ulcer drug. The FDA had approved aspartame's sale, but stayed that action pending a new look at Searle...
Although he lived to 1961, Darwin was patently a 19th century figure whose values are closer to those espoused at the Battle of Waterloo than to those of the present. The cult of Darwinia surrounding his personal escapades almost transforms him into a character out of a P.G. Wodehouse novel...