Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Edwardians by J.B. Priestley. Illustrated. 302 pages. Harper & Row. $ 15. The lower classes were wretched and the Boer War was a scandal, but in the main the Edwardians were as self-possessed as their older brothers, the late Victorians, and a good deal gayer. The Empire was at its apogee; surveying his South African fortune and keeping his subjunctives firmly in place, Cecil Rhodes said, "If there be a God I think he would like me to paint as much of Africa British-Red as possible." Yet great social reforms at home permitted the top authors-Kipling, Shaw and Wells...
Harvard and Boston University have strong, evenly-matched teams. While Cornell was blowing two games in a row to unheralded Brown and R.P.I. teams, the Crimson and the Terriers have been rolling over opponents...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER by Eberhard Bethge. 867 pages. Harper & Row...
...seen us lose to Dartmouth two years in a row, and I knew that if we were going to do anything in the Ivies this year, we'd have to beat them on our home court. And now we'll have a psychological advantage when we play them up there," Dover said after the game...
Despite their virtuous qualities, the Indians dropped their opener to the University of New Hampshire, 6-4, and they should make it two in a row tonight against Harvard...