Word: deeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern football are those occasions known as "big pre-game evenings." These evenings, wondrous tings in themselves and honored as rituals, list for hours and hours; sometimes they last for days. Their commercial possibilities are quickly recognized by hostelries, restaurants, and theatres, and are exploited accordingly. And then buried deep in the tinsel; there is also the game itself. What, however,, is coming to be practically optional. The evenings loom larger...
...decency of the affair. Enough has been said--perhaps too much--concerning Harvard's penchant for the quiet, the restrained, the indifferent. The CRIMSON firmly believes, however, that if any attitude is typical of the University it is this one. The chasm of trite collegiatism is too deep to warrant any precarious flirtations with its slopes...
...would suggest that he take a walk around the Beecher statue in Brooklyn, and note that on the pedestal is the figure of a Negro girl raising a branch of palm to show the gratitude of her race. And perhaps, if the deep truth of that symbolism strikes home, he will doff his hat in salutation to a man the latchet of whose shoes he is unworthy to unloose...
Soon the Columbia developed engine trouble, was forced to glide down into a field gashed by a deep ditch. The ditch fouled the landing gear, tripped the plane which then buried its nose in the ground, its engine wrecked, its wings twisted. Miraculously, no one was injured...
...Providence in 1926. With an untried line, Penn faced the famed Brown "Iron Men" nervously. Through the first half both teams kicked steadily, hoping for a fumble on the wet field. There was no score. Brown took a desperate chance in the third quarter, throwing a forward pass deep in home territory. Folwell Scull intercepted, scored. Brown recovered a fumbled kick, made a touchdown; failed to kick the goal. Penn marched 60 yards for another score; won the game...