Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole thing was a bit thick...
...other times were startling. Saving himself for his triumphant effort in the 440, Kendall coasted to an easy victory in the 220-yard free style with a time of 2:23.6. His team-mates seem to have taken advantage of weak opposition in order to relax a bit. Add to this their lack of acquaintance with a 20-yard pool, and the clockings, a bit slow for the Crimson mermen, are not surprising...
Russ Greenhood will run up against a bit of opposition in the dive when he meets Noonan. Russ, however, has shown a consistent ability to pull himself out of some pretty tight places in the past, and, unless he makes a serious slip, ought to win by a comfortable margin...
Some observers saw a bit of poetic justice in the race. Frannie King, first Harvard leg, fell flat on his face from what appeared to be a deliberate foul by the Yale runner. King regained his feet and raced on, yards behind...
...goodly growth and ponder on the supreme reality. We learn how to win friends and influence people and we have developed a magnificent prejudice for Fascism. We have taken the voodoo out of somnambulism and replaced it with an implicit belief in that supreme bit of charlatanism, that elucidation of common sense by the application of erudite proper nouns, known as Psychology. We still like jazz but we have made it svelt and called it swing; we still like our women more or less naked but we produce a plausible excuse in the sacred name of "athlete." And while...