Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Albert of Belgium, who does all he can to promote the breeding of sturdy Belgian draft horses, sent Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgian ambassador to the U. S., to offer a cup at the Live Stock exposition. Charles A. Wentz of Kirby, Ohio, won it with his four-year-old Belgian stallion Lordeau II. Evert King of Chicago owns the best stallion, Waynesdale King. Champion last year also, Waynesdale King could not compete for King Albert's cup...
Dundee was happy. He dwelt with his native sweetheart in the little house he'd made for her and contemplated the future with satisfaction. His sweetheart bore him a "tricksy" son and Dundee's cup ran over. He loved his sweetheart; he loved his son; soon the trees could be tapped; soon they would be rich...
...Washington, Marines and Soldiers displayed eager savagery in battle for the President's Cup, ensign of service supremacy. Fisticuffer Gene Tunney helped the linesmen; cheered for the Marines. President & Mrs. Coolidge shivered with 20,000 in the stands. Sgt. Harry A. Bertelman, Army tackle, was assisted from the game with four crushed ribs. President Coolidge donated the Cup to the Marines; score...
There is a National League; ten teams divided into the International Division (Montreal Canadiens, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, New York Americans) and the American Division (New York Rangers, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston). In March the first three teams in the International play for the O'Brien Cup; the first three in the American for the Prince of Wales Cup; respectively emblematic of the division championships. Then division champions play for the Stanley Cup and the World's Championship...
Only after repeatedly drinking of the cup of despair by seeing the Harvard football team give way to bigger and better foemen on alternating Saturdays have I become reconciled to the judgment of the Great Middle West that Harvard has degenerated solely into an institution of learning. The crowning blow, however, has been delivered by the Yale News. The passing of the Greek Department at Harvard brushes away our last hold on culture. We are led to believe that as Apollo had Marsvas skinned a mile, so the Business School, suckled in the years of its infancy in the Classical...