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...message from the "We Try Harder" folks proved correct. The Redskins never recovered, though they scored with two minutes remaining on a fluke play. The Washington fans emerged from the crowd for the first time in the afternoon as the band played "Hail to the Chief". But not enough time remained for the Skins to come back. The final score: 14-7, Miami...
...momentum didn't stay with the Harvard footballers, though, as a defensive foul-up between fullback Prank Gerald and Zurchow allowed a fluke goal and a change in the tempo of the game...
Carved Toggles. Often in the West, miniatures compel the worthless gawking one reserves for Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peach-stone kitsch. Not in Japan, where the image and the scale were one-partly by a happy fluke of social pressure. The Imperial sumptuary laws forbade merchants and samurai to wear excessively rich garments, so male vanity expressed itself in three special kinds of objects: inros, the tiny compartmented cases for carrying seals, or later medicine; netsukes, the carved toggles that fastened the inros to one's sash; and tsubas, or sword guards. The amount of craft lavished...
Saturday's decisive win makes the victory over Penn two weekends ago seem like anything but a fluke and establishes Harvard as the team to best in the Ivies...
...junior varsity soccer team had to settle for a 1-1 tie with the Tufts freshman team Friday afternoon after surrendering a fluke goal with 40 seconds left in the game...