Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Generalissimo Smoot permitted his regular Republican troops to make a strategic retreat under this assault, rather than waste time attempting to hold the lowlands line. His purpose was to straighten out this bad bulge in his tariff line later with the aid of armored tanks and Republican robots from the House...
...with a bad leg, Coach Knute Rockne told his team to start Savoldi at fullback so as to give Moon Mullins a rest. Substitute Savoldi smashed the line and skirted ends for a total of 173 yards while other Notre Damerungs, inspired, ripped Wisconsin...
...year or two after my graduation, I applied to President Eliot for a tutorship in Greek. Tutors in those days were appointed for terms of three years. I was young, inexperienced, and afraid, and undoubtedly made a bad, impression on him. He gave me no encouragement at all. Yet Greek was prescribed to Freshmen and tutors had to be found. The academic year for the upper classes began on Thursday; for Freshmen, some of whom were examined for admission in the last three days of the week, it began on the following Monday. On Saturday half of the Freshmen...
...high pile of wood or lumber close to the line that divided the estates. 'I told him,' said the President, many years later, 'that if he objected to the College's woodpile, the College' would gladly buy his land. That,' the President added, 'was a bad break...
...speed shown by the squad helps to dispel the gloom that has been hovering over Soldiers Field because of injuries and Coach Horween's dissatisfaction. The appearance of B. Ticknor in civilian clothes also helped to inspire the squad. The big center, still nursing a bad leg, appeared in better condition than he has all week, and the chances that he might be used as substitute center tomorrow improved greatly. If he is at all able to play it is fairly safe to say that Coach Horween will use him part of the time...