Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since becoming an adopted son of John Harvard I have attended eight games in the Stadium. At only one of them, a Yale game, did the Harvard cheering show any real life. Saturday's exhibition was the poorest of all. The team lost to Purdue after a game fight; the cheering section was practically beaten before the kickoff. In six weeks, on November 19, the team will be ready for Yale. Will the cheering section profit equally from these six weeks and be ready for Yale also...
...Health in an effort to learn more of the cause and transmission of the disease, and gave skilled assistance to those afflicted. Dr. W. L. Aycock, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene at the Medical School, is head of the practicing end of the Commission, and is leading the fight against the present epidemic...
...street noticed that the magazines which he had hitherto correctly stigmatized as highbrow now contained opinions of dominant people on controversial matters. The articles had a pleasant downrightness as different from the style of the newspaper editorial writer as a dopester's diagnosis before a fight is unrecognizable twenty-four hours later in the same dopester turned raconteur. The magazine publisher's eye was not, like that of many newspapermen, upon circulations retained by editorials palely loitering on the outskirts of the true issue. He believed in the verity of Walter Hines Page's idea: "The way to make...
...fight with all my strength the theories and ideas aiming to subvert, corrupt or disintegrate religion, love of country and family...
Colonel Roosevelt's sin was not belittling Smith but in the crudity of his tactics. Smith can always be trusted to give back more than he receives in an open fight. Opponents of his presidential candidacy only defeat their own ends by giving him a chance to hit back. A successful fight will not be directed against his governorship--he has done his gubernatorial duties too well. It must rather deal in obscure appeals to racial and religious prejudice; if it hopes to attract either vigorous denial or assent...