Word: waylaid
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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Despite tight economic times, cash registers are jingling as loud as ever at most bookstores this season. Things have gotten so jolly at nearby book stores it's easy to get waylaid by bad books on the way to the check-out. What follows is a guide to some of the modern morass of printed matter, as well as a sampling of which works qualify as more defensible acquisitions...
...happened again Saturday, with the Bulldogs whipping UPenn, 24-3, and Brown and Columbia losing to outside opposition. Holy Cross waylaid the Bruins, 34-24, while Colgate bombarded the Lions, 41-3. In an Ivy contest, Dartmouth hobbled a defenseless Cornell squad, 42-7, and remained unbeaten in League play...
...Almost every event was closely contested," McCurdy said. "We didn't have the luxury of having things go against us." Unexpected misfortune waylaid the thinclads in the 400-and 55-meter dashes...