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...details of what actually transpired are as clear as an overcast night in Pittsburgh, but for the record, the Crimson harriers opened their season by losing to Providence and by being involved in a nolo contendere decision with UMass in what was supposed to be a tri-meet yesterday afternoon at Franklin Park...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Harriers Kick Off With Loss, No Decision | 9/29/1976 | See Source »

...game was played on a soggy field and under an overcast sky which periodically spilled rain on the players. The temperature was about 45 degrees...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Bowdoin Tops Laxwomen In Maine Rain and Mud | 4/28/1976 | See Source »

...evening skies near Carleton, Mich., were overcast with scattered clouds as the two jumbo jets sped toward each other. TWA Flight 37, a Lockheed L-1011 with 114 people aboard, was cruising on course at 35,000 ft. from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. American Airlines Flight 182, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 bound from Chicago to Newark with 194 passengers and crew, was climbing to an assigned altitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Riding the Whip | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

From the gloomy, overcast skies to the outlook for the game, things looked grim for Harvard at that point...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Booters Stage Comeback to Top Columbia, 3-2 | 10/14/1975 | See Source »

...Thousands of male heads in derbies. Thousands of female heads covered with shawls. It was a rag ship with a million dark eyes staring at him. Father, a normally resolute person, suddenly floundered in his soul. A weird despair seized him. The wind came up, the sky had turned overcast, and the great ocean began to tumble and break upon itself as if made of slabs of granite and sliding terraces of slate. He watched the ship till he could see it no longer. Yet aboard her were only more customers, for the immigrant population set great store...

Author: By Richard Tuhner, | Title: Playing Ragtime Slow | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

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