Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basketball heave is not used, must quickly form a rushing defensive interference, and meet the offensive interference at the scrimmage line. Result a young Freshman-Sophomore rush, long ago tabooed for brutality! Result in rushing also nothing, for like two equally heavy express trains colliding head on they crash and pile up with no gain...
Harvard's football season opens with a crash. Quite different from the traditional easy workout with Colby will be the initial game with Holy Cross this afternoon. The selection of this much more formidable opponent for the opening contest marks a change in the policy of Harvard football administration. The abandonment of the old "easy schedule" will be welcomed by all followers of the Crimson eleven, not only because it will bring many more interesting contests to Soldiers Field, but also because it will test the team more severely, better equip it to meet Yale, and will give...
...several of the sketches, however, which do not suffer from condensation--the life of Beau Brummell, for example. This work is easily the best in the volume. Mr. Ellis is at his best in his description of the famous dandy's reign as the leather of society, of the crash that came when he went too far in his intimacy with the Prince Regent, and of the miserable years that he spent, exiled in Calia. when he lived a little better than a beggar...
...firms, in their turn, unable to borrow further except at exorbitant rates, were forced when in need of ready money to realize on their merchandise. A late season, tardy deliveries, a generally slow market, and the necessity of selling brought the situation to a crucial point and the inevitable crash came...