Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first period, which ended in a draw, was a battle to the death between Holmes and Wylde, playing at the cage for the B. A. A. The former, employing at various moments, feet, hands, legs, body and stick, was the butt of a perfect shower of shots, while Wylde, hammered almost as unceasingly by the University skaters, was bombarded, and driven out of position a dozen times, though succeeding in covering up on each occasion...
...many years ago any suggestion that a university should take more than a passing interest in what was going on outside its cloister would not have been received with any great degree of warmth. It was this scholastic attitude that made the college man the butt of ridicule for every journalist and humorist of the country, who sarcastically called attention to the essential impracticability of a college education...