Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caveman in politics, with the caveman's virility, with the caveman's courage, with the caveman's violence and with the caveman's complete incapacity to realize that he might be wrong. For Senator Reed every argument is a quarrel, every quarrel is a fight, every fight is a massacre...
Purdue 19, Harvard 0; Georgia 14, Yale 0. That leaves Harvard and Yale to fight it out with Dartmouth for the championship of New England. Yale seems to have the edge on anything else in Connecticut, and Harvard is the class of Massachusetts, including Williams, Amherst, and the Sargent School for Physical Education. Harvard and Yale are shorn of their ancient glory: Now they are nothing more than institutions of learning. --The Chicago Tribune...
Holy Cross, though outnumbered, possessed an individual star whose equal has perhaps never been seen on the historic Soldiers Field turf. Harvard had its pistol, but the Crusader leader had the Harvard stands on its feet yelling for more of his gravitational magic. The fight might well have been declared a draw by music critics, Harvard's volume equalling the single-handed figuratively, of course--performance of the Crusader's drum major...
...Harvard rooters are to be damned to see their drum major out-juggled every Saturday by an embryonic W. C. Fields, they should at least be spared the humiliation of apologizing for the manners of its representatives. To lose a battle of music after a hard fight--and we hope there is nothing wrong with the morale of the musicians--is no disgrace but not to play the game according to the rules...
When asked about the work of the backfield, O'Connell said that the Harvard running attack was good, and that the plays were deceptive. "We were up against a fighting team," O'Connell went on. "I couldn't say that Harvard was yellow, as some Purdue players said. If anything, the team over-fought, but that was because they were keyed-up and determined to come back. A week of fight talk did wonders for Harvard. We were dazzled at the start, and some of our men lost their heads, while Harvard kept on crashing through...