Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen Oklahoma players had suffered food poisoning two nights before, but Northwestern still looked strong enough to beat the Sooners at their healthiest, scampered all over their home stadium to win, 45-13, hand Oklahoma Coach Bud Wilkinson his worst defeat in twelve spectacular years (114 won, 11 lost...
Pros & Prizes. The recent spectacular surge gets its impetus from the cold economics of postwar commercial publishing. Soaring costs have fostered the hit psychology of the Broadway theater, forced commercial publishers to shy away from nonfiction books that are likely to sell less than a break-even 8,000 copies. The university presses have no such profit-and-loss problems. As taxexempt, nonprofit enterprises, often bolstered by subsidies, they can afford to keep slow sellers in print as long as they prove useful. Result: more and more commercially marginal but eminently important books are being handed over to the universities...
Ekpebu's emergence as a potentially fine center forward should add confidence to the Crimson attack. He and Mudd give the varsity two spectacular scoring threats, and McIntosh is always accurate from right wing. Sweeney is a fine playmaker, and Hedreen, hampered by foot injuries against the Jumbos, should be ready to utilize his proven scoring punch...
...varsity soccer squad's prospects for a successful season brightened considerably yesterday afternoon at Medford. Coach Bruce Munro's eleven crushed Tufts, 6 to 0, while Larry Ekpebu, scoring twice for the varsity, filled the trouble-some center forward position in spectacular fashion...
Ekpebu tallied the Crimson's first goal on a head at 12:30 in the first quarter. Late in the second period he just missed a spectacular, diving shot at the left corner of the Tufts goal, and he nearly scored from a sitting position in the third session after running 10 yards on his hands and knees to reach the ball. He got his second score at 12:35 of the third period, taking a perfect pass from wing Tadgh Sweeney and drilling it into the left side of the nets...