Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike previous years, when the Crusaders were known as a heavy, bull-like team whose greatest ground-gaining potential was through the center of the line, this year's Holy Cross squad is notable for a good passing attack run off by an all-sophomore backfield, according to McCabe...
Siege Operations. Committee Chairman Vinson presided benevolently over the amphitheater formed by the double bank of committee tables, peering at witnesses over his spectacles. "Come on up here," he told "Bull" Halsey, who is growing a little deaf and had trouble hearing the questions. Stubby, emphatic Bull Halsey drew cheers from his Navy audience when he attacked the long-range bomber, declaring roundly: "I do not favor the concept that the principal weapon in our national arsenal should be a weapon designed to conduct siege operations...
...Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan Duke (Bull Durham, Duke's Mixture, Lucky Strikes) stood upon a hill three miles west of Durham, N.C. and silently gazed out over the wooded acres about him. Finally he turned to his companion and said: "This is the place...
...stock dividend. For those who still swore by the Dow theory, regardless of its confusing "signals," there was also reason to cheer. The railroad average, lagging behind the industrial, now broke through last March's "resistance" point. To some Dow theorists, that was a sign that a bull market was in the making...
Other HMC parties were deployed this summer to the Grand Tetons of Wyoming, the Coast Range in Alaska, and the French Alps--a fact which might surprise some of the founders, who originally started the club as a bull-session society. This was in 1924, when Henry S. Hall, Jr. '19 returned from climbing near Banff and wanted to tell all his friends about it. So he invited them to his house and started talking, and called it the Harvard Mountaineering Club...