Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith speech, suggested itself as follows: Smith thinks the Congress is the medium through which the Democracy should start working up to 1932. The Democrats are now a weak minority in the Congress. Smith is "just as anxious" as before his nomination to see the Democrats come to glory. Smith has resolved never again to seek public office. But, if his anxiety for his party is as great as he says, might he not some day be persuaded to let public office seek him? Might he not, perhaps, be persuaded to enter Congress? This could easily be effected through...
...Rumania stands. . . . Rumania, the country I love and have to live for, stands and stands! ... I am the link with the past-the one still on guard. . . . Rumania and I are one. No joys, no griefs can come to Rumania that are not mine...
...line of momentum-mass plays ultimately to be legislated illegal. Following this for a number of years, the coaching brains of the country were concentrated in conceiving momentum and mass plays in which bulk and power were to accomplish what skill and artistry were to do in years to come. In 1893 the Crimson cohorts surprised the football world by taking the field in leather breeches. In 1894 all home football activities were transferred from Jarvis to Soldiers Field. This decade also gave to Harvard the world's greatest punter and Harvard's great coach, Percy D. Haughton...
Harvard, to be sure, is none too powerful. The Crimson has a strong running and lateral passing attack, but lacks the forward passing threat that is essential to make the running offense a distinct success. It is fairly easy to come up and stop running plays when you know your opponents can't complete forwards...
Harvard goes to Yale with pleasure that has defied definition for too long to have its genesis discovered this year. One would not wish to come closer to it than the sense that came to many a Harvard man on the day the first visited Yale, a sense of having been here at some other time...