Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bench with a blanket over him. Fortnight ago he had hurt his leg against Harvard. It was Earl Baruch, sophomore halfback, who ran with the ball, who booted it through gulfs of air, who threw the pass Dan Caulkins carried to a touchdown and who kicked the goal that beat a Yale team...
...keep silent no longer. Apprehensive Harvard supporters are entitled to have just as jolly a time on the way to New Haven as they will have on the way back. It is only fair that I tell a waiting world that Harvard is going to beat Yale, beat her thoroughly and decisively. With that statement goes the whole reputation of Joe Forecast and as you all know that is no small thing. For never have I made an error in prognosticating a Harvard game...
...that Harvard will beat Yale today even if I have to leave the little woman in the stands by herself while I go down and tell Coach Horween just what to do. And she won't mind it for she is all wool and a yard wide speaking in round figures that is. Moreover if Harvard does win she has promised to go with me after the game to a justice of the peace and you can guess what will happen then, Lucky girl. So I am prophesying today a victory for Harvard and a tie for Joe Forecast...
...first serious indication of the new forces at work among the laboring masses is the Passaic strike. Here the mill-owners have attempted the age old intolerably stupid method of force and terrorism in an attempt to beat back the demand for reform. They have succeeded only in arousing greater determination among the strikers and in attracting nation wide attention to the intolerable conditions among the textile workers...
...fact we asked Joe Forecast about it and he said that with an average hand he would bid at least "one without" providing Michigan did beat the Navy...