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Word: ditch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates, far outweighs the physical objection. Not until this year's team had been given a taste of real football for one-half of the Princeton game did they find themselves. From then on nothing could stop them. Not until the undergraduates saw their team fighting to the last ditch at Princeton did they know what backing was. After that none could be more loyal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A STRONGER SCHEDULE. | 11/25/1919 | See Source »

...finished, we were coming back, when we approached a noted bad corner, where orders had been long before issued to us, "if anything happens there, ditch the machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMBULANCE CORPS SEES REAL WAR | 9/28/1916 | See Source »

...French sergeant flashed a light and pointed it o show us just enough room to squeeze through between the caisson and the ditch while his men went steadily on without haste yet with efficient "team work" and no conversation, clearing the road. And this was no place to linger, as the next one was always due to arrive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMBULANCE CORPS SEES REAL WAR | 9/28/1916 | See Source »

...University cross-country team had its first hard run over the 6-mile Belmont course yesterday. The results were very gratifying in spite of the muddy condition of the course. In one place the men had to cross a 10-foot ditch full of water because one of the fields was temporarily closed. Some forded the ditch while others took to broad-jumping. K. E. Fuller 16 was well in the lead all the way. The order of finish was as follows: K. E. Fuller '16, R. T. Twitchell '16, W. P. Whitehouse, 2d '17, A. R. Bancroft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six-Mile Course Covered Yesterday | 10/9/1915 | See Source »

...have the two reasons for a certain confidence noted above, any real advantage for Harvard. The sole fact that Princeton defeated Yale will convert the Yale eleven of next Saturday from an ordinary Yale team confident of defeating Harvard into a desperate machine fighting to the last ditch not only to overwhelm Harvard but to turn a whole season from utter failure into partial success. Princeton's victory Saturday puts Yale in exactly that position where the latter appears to the very best advantage; namely, fighting against odds. And it is a rare Yale team that does not win under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FIGHTING CHANCE. | 11/20/1911 | See Source »

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