Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bears, already decisive conquerors of Yale and Dartmouth, won easily from Norwich, champion of Vermont gridirons, last Saturday with a substitute team bearing the brunt of the action. The original Providence "olevon", with two weeks of light work behind it, should be in shape to furnish the Crimson with a final taste of hard, aggressive opposition which should put the University players in a position to be ready for the best that Yale can offer in the season's traditional classic...
...penalty could not be refused in these days and if Yale had been offside and a touchdown had been scored the penalty would be administered but the touchdown would not count. On the next play with Yale onside the wedge would shift to the sideline and would force the brunt of the attack on only half of the Yale team, thereby increasing the scoring of Harvard...
...from the wings, attacking the on-coming column on both flanks. Then he ordered reserves to bolster up the centre. The result was that the cavalry cut the main body of the advancing column to pieces by their simultaneous flank attacks, while the reenforced centre bore the brunt of the Austrian 'spear-head...
...informal scrimmage between Boston Latin and the Sophomore team, with the probability of the Junior eleven also being sent in to face the high school eleven. The Sophomore squad, which is the largest, has also shown the most rapid development and has thus been picked to bear the brunt of the first outside contest. The game has been scheduled with an eye to preparing both teams for their later engagements and the coaches will stop play whenever they wish to point out to the players their defects and to correct the collective play of both teams...
...there been any substantial study of Spanish Commerce and its relation to the export of specie. The task is so large that the cooperation of a number of research workers will be necessary; candidates for the doctor's degree at Harvard and other universities will doubtless bear the brunt of the work, but it is hoped that others may also be induced to cooperate. Effective planning of the scheme in its entirety makes it essential to examine the material available in the various Spanish archives, printed inventories being as yet incomplete...