Word: aglow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There can't be a shadow of doubt that some of the American football battles in France, waged by men at the top of condition and aglow with victory over the world's enemy, were the hardest-fought pigskin combats in which Americans had had ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng...