Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Campus Character. George E. Tinker, operator of Jimmie's Lunch nearby the Harvard Yard, won a bet from two Harvard undergraduates last week. They presented him with a quart of gin, bet he could not drink it down. He won, fell under the counter in agony, died later without naming the losers...
Several characters from Constantinople fell in the drinking fountain and had a Turkish bath. Wild west characters with guns and spurs rode the floor to perfection, not pulling leather either...
...broken off in 1905, 19 games had been played, of which 12 had been won by Harvard. In the early years of the series, strong teams from the University annually annihilated the Pennsylvania eleven, as is shown by the scores of 1887, 1888, and 1889, when the Philadelphia's fell by 42 to 0, 35 to 0, and 50 to 0. After Harvard had enjoyed a long winning streak, the series closed in 1905, the last two games being Pennsylvania victories...
Near the close of the quarter Captain Wetmore caught a punt on the Yale 40-yard line, fell in behind perfect interference, and sprinted the 40 yards for his team's third tally...
...disquieting to see so clearly that historians and biographers are more and more becoming cultural book-keepers. When one contemplates a great man now, there is little thought of whether or not he swore, heartily and fell in love: one must deal with the questions: "What did he do for us? If he had not lived and behaved so, wherein would our life be different?" And such profit and loss statements have their absorbing interest, even if their appearance may be a sign that humanity sees the sheriff approaching to seal up the door...