Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel and stogies, for smoke-belching glass factories, for a fuliginous smoke pall, for soot and cinders and fabulous fortunes that the popular mind has pictured piled in spilling, golden mounds among dark mountains -for these things has Pittsburgh been famous since men forgot how she was once a frontier fort in the Red Indians' forest...
...dark horse is not yet over, it was shown yesterday afternoon by P. M. Lenhart '27, when he defeated H. N. Rawlins '27 in the semifinals of the University Squash tournament, by the score...
...much longer. Still the lead went down. At last, the drum stopped rolling. Nearly six and a quarter miles of wire had been paid out? 32,644 ft.?the end of the wire; and still the lead dangled clear of the bottom far, far down in the absolute dark of the cold sea; and little fishes, strange little monsters with radio-light spots, wandered around it in the deep...
Lafayette, unbeaten, took on the Leopard's spots and sought to pounce on Penn, also unbeaten. To no avail. A field goal by Chief Leopard Berry was wiped out by a pass by Chief Quaker McGraw, caught and carried by one Joe Laird. The Leopards went back to Easton, dark bruises mingled with their spots and the score: Penn 6, Lafayette 3. The Quakers rejoiced in being the only unbeaten, untied Eastern team of the season, Pittsburgh having tied Penn's nearest rival, Syracuse...
...golf ball soared through the night. Stars twinkled overhead, night winds sighed as the ball landed, bounded, rolled up on a putting green unaccustomed to such nocturnal visitations. On the green, the ball moved steadily toward, was swallowed up by, a dark little shadow-the hole. No fairy-flight nor golfer's fevered dream, this. Back in the direction from which the ball had come, 246 yards over hump and hummock, stumpy little Gene Sarazen, onetime U. S. open champion, grinned and chaffed with many bystanders as he cracked out other balls into the night from the first...