Word: dervish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both teams letting out just about all they had in an effort to come through. Dartmouth came closer to succeeding, but even at that Yale, with Booth in action, cannot be said to be very far from a score no matter where the ball is. The little Elis' dancing dervish is never safe until after the whistle has blown...
...most incredible hardships with iron endurance. He sprang from the lowest level of society, and had the manners of a grandee and the epistolary style of a Machiavelli. He knew no enjoyment of life, a home meant nothing to him, his wants were as few as those of a dervish, yet he died of worry because he could not get the forty thousand pesos owed him by the Colonial Administration...