Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pensive droop of their heads, by their strife to be polite to visitors despite the calamity, by the dim lights of the club, by the English tea, by the yearning of the club members fingers toward the breast pocket where the pencil lay, I realized that a great blow had been struck that day for the furtherance of Yale letters...
...hostility of the sporting writers is natural enough. The Presidents' agreement threatens their bread and butter because it is a blow at the growing commercialism and publicity of college athletics. Also, any rumored "split" between the so-called "Big Three" makes much better "copy" than any ungarnished summary of the athletic affairs of Harvard University...
...recent attempt to blow up Memorial Hall is a revulsion against the better felling at Harvard. Attempts like this and the blowing up of the old pump are not the kinds of thing that appeals to the average Harvard...
Small wonder that the Ministry of Agriculture is alarmed. Here is a peasant aristocrat, overturing at one blow all pretensions of such upstart houses as Bourbons, Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Plantagenets to antiquity. Renan's famous remark that if the rights of ownership were religiously observed, Alsace-Lorraine would belong to the aboriginal apes, is nearly true to a lesser degree in this French farmer with his nine hundred year old ancestry. As far as, claims to aristocracy are concerned the line of this peasant proprietor going back over three hundred years before the rhyme...
...players the lowest position in the League, with a percentage of nine won and sixteen lost. The Union Boat Club won the championship for the second consecutive year, with the Harvard Club second, and the B. A. A. third. The loss of A. L. Smith '25 was a severe blow to the University team, since he was their most consistent winner...