Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to follow the general scheme of attack which a team is employing, the process is a bit harder. You will find it necessary to pay attention to the formations as they line up before the ball is put into play. Ordinarily these make but the haziest impression on the casual observer. With the formation in mind, it is not so difficult to forecast where the play is going and to keep an eye out for the way the clearing and running is done. On passes, it is much better to watch the receivers than the passer; you know what...
Even less politely written than All Quiet on the Western Front, The Cross Bearers mentions words, things not usually mentioned, in its own way does its bit to illuminate...
...first persons of importance that were met were the Lovely Sisters, Nelda and Violet respectively. Arriving at a door market "Quiet, Stars in meditation" whence issued a highly non-meditative bit of harmony, the interviewer was suddenly thrust into a small room containing numbers one and two of the fifty six with no further warning than "Get Decent" on the part of the Stage Manager. "Ooooo," sagaciously remarked the fair Miss Nelda, and this interviewer retreated hastily, having been warned by that expressive exclamation that the young lady behind the screen (Miss Violet) was not to be seen...
...wish some of the boys out at Harvard would realize that," interjected Miss Violet a bit strenuously. "You see," she continued, "We happened to be out with two of these gentlemen the other evening and they were so intent upon informing us what 'big' men they were that we really had quite an uninspiring evening. They seemed to think that actresses had to be impressed or otherwise they would consider their escorts inadequate...
...game for the Saturday previous and the rally of the fourth is evidently going to be one of the biggest that has ever been held in a Big Ten town. The poster also has a score prediction on it which says "Michigan 13, Harvard 6." This is a bit early for prognostications on the Michigan game, but when the time comes Time Out will call in his aide, H. Flung Huey, to decree the score and it will be right, as the Sage of the Age is never wrong. But Mr. Huey could not undertake to foresee the score...