Word: stroke
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Klein shined through the poor weather and difficult course, winning the Yale Invitational this weekend in New Haven, Conn. Klein’s 76-74-150, 10 over par, beat UConn’s Justin Ciombor by a single stroke, making Klein the first Crimson golfer to win a tournament since Alex Gonzalez ’98. Overall, Harvard placed fifth, with a score of 307-318-625, 13 strokes behind champion UConn...
...There’s always a lot of rivalry between us because we train on the same river,” said junior stroke Kip McDaniel. “No one’s going to deny that this adds a little more fuel to the fire...
...songs are packed. But they offer more than filler—each guitar stroke, violin pluck, barely audible incantation and keyboard trill is crucial and executed with style, evoking the album’s wistful but youthful tone...
...licensing industry’s most recent stroke of genius has expanded an enterprise that already seems to produce everything anyone could possibly use. Now, not only can colleges equip students with a complete way of life—allowing them to wear, use and drink from its hallowed name—they also offer alums their vaunted insignias in death. Companies such as College Memorials in Macon, Ga., specialize in insignia caskets, urns and other truly lasting memorabilia that allow the proud alumnus to take their alma mater to the grave...
...stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." So declared Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech on the eve of his nation's independence from Britain. In New Delhi the next day, the celebrating crowd was so huge that Nehru, the new Prime Minister, had to fight his way to the grandstand, at one point knocking off the turban of a man who had gotten in his way. He was worried for the safety of his friends, the last British viceroy Lord Mountbatten, who was a cousin of England's monarch, and his wife...