Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Editor Mellett had built up circulation but incurred bitter enmities by bold-printed attacks on Canton's labyrinthine underworld, Canton's obviously corrupt police force, Canton's civic officials. Detectives swarmed to Canton. Newspapers all over Ohio succeeded in confusing Justice in its course by their frantic efforts to beat one another to the mystery's solution. Evidence pointed to the hiring of underworld thugs, by "higher-ups" in Canton to commit the murder. One Louis Mazer, Canton bootlegger and an overlord of the Canton "jungle" was arrested. Also one Ben Rudner, hardware dealer of nearby Massillon, Ohio...
...bought new shoes for all the little Forecasts out of my winnings on the Dartmouth game! I who, alone of the so-called experts, not only forecasted the winner of that fray correctly, but even broadcasted to my public the exact number of touchdowns it would take Dartmouth to beat us! And here was a CRIMSON candidate seeming to minimize my powers. But I answered him none the less with quiet courtesy, saying, "I have already made...
...torment to collegiate dudes who, unable to leave their eskimohair coats at home, sweltered in the New Jersey sun, a plunging Navy team came from behind to beat Princeton...
...judgment seems to have been justified, to express the matter mildly. In 1897 his team beat Harvard, Cornell, Carlisle, Wesleyan, Brown, Lafayette, Pennsylvania State, Dartmouth, Virginia, Lehigh, Bucknell (twice), Franklin and Marshall, Washington and Jefferson, and Gettysburg. The team won all 15 games played, scoring 517 points to opponents...
...that's the way the men in the Stadium must have felt, Saturday. If this can keep that spirit, no one else will beat them, this year. That's why Gene Tinney defeated Dempsey: he paid no attention to other people, but just behind in himself. I think this confidence, or determination, or whatever it is is the most essential thing for an athlete to have...