Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Your columns are not the place to discuss the Cleveland-Olney policy. Mr. Roosevelt uses them to call for a bigger navy, that being of course the next obligatory step in the novel national career sprung upon us so abruptly by the President, and which Mr. Roosevelt considers it to be a sort of treason now to oppose. There are enough of us who believe that the development of such a national career would be pregnant of calamity for civilization. Men at the student-age are easily swayed by phrases. But I trust that no catch-words or nicknames will...
...second half the Harvard men played a better game and seldom allowed the ball to get on the wrong side of the centre line. Had it not been for their continual holding in the line, off-side play and a costly fumble, the score would have been bigger than...
...Cambridge men are bigger, older and better developed physically than the members of the Yale team. Captain Shaw of the L. A. C. team, expressed surprise that the American sprinters were for the most part of light build, and said that in his opinlon strength was essential to fast sprinting...
...freshmen played two thiaty minute halves with the Exeter team at Exeter and failed to score. The only wonder is that the home team did not make a bigger score for the Harvard team played abominably. One cannot expect much team work from a freshman eleven so early in the season, but the college does expect interest and suap. Ninety-four played without either of these. The worst feature was the massing of the Exeter men against our centre; for every time this was done the freshmen were shoved right away; almost as bad as this...