Word: bared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is something for every one to watch himself. Remember there are bathers who are walking in that vicinity in bare feet and they are apt to get one of these things in their feet. A Flint is said to cause a nasty bruise on the insten. Be sure that you put all the parts back in again when you dismember your peculiar brand. The car won't run so well without them and it spoils the chastity of the greensward...
...spot of bare earth about as big as a monocle, in the surface of a grass tennis court, in Orange, N. J., William T. Tilden II, National Lawn Tennis Champion, glared. There were many other such spots in the court, which was not a very good one. During the course of his game, Champion Tilden glared at most of them. Sometimes, indeed, he stopped short and addressed them in terms that involved the names of prominent Biblical characters. The spectators pitied Champion Tilden's trouble with the spots, which assuredly gave an abominable twist to many of the balls...
...Freshman football team was stopped a foot from the Blue goal and forced to swallow a 7 to 6 defeat; the basketball team, after leading for the bulk of the game, lost by a single point; the track team gathered a bare two points less than their Yale opponents; but yesterday's reverse was the most disappointing of all. Eight innings of practically perfect pitching went for naught in the ninth after victory seemed within Harvard's grasp by virtue of a single score in the eighth which had broken a seven inning deadlock...
Kane and Allen were eliminated in the trials for the quarter. Allen ran especially well in his heat but failed to get into second place by a bare margin in a very closely contested finish. The heat was won by Ascher of Georgetown who took third in the finals the following afternoon only three yards behind the winner. Fletcher, the University entrant in the low hurdles also failed to qualify...
...Third University eight was picked by Coach Brown on Tuesday from the members of the class crew squad. Although it had been rowing together one day, it raced the Second crew over the Henley distance yesterday afternoon, and succeeded in holding Coach Stevens' eight to a bare quarter boat length victory. The surprising showing of the Third crew has made this eight the most formidable of the Crimson contenders Saturday in the opinion of the coaches...