Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forth in an editorial in "Liberty" which takes up the cause of natural expressions such as "He don't" and "It's me" as opposed to the stilted "He doesn't" and "It's I." "Ain't," the writer admits with a sigh, is gradually losing ground in its fight to supplant the awkward "am not" or "aren...
...phrases which so completely violate the principles of correct grammar as "He don't" are to become permissible in good usage, purists and scholars may indeed mourn the loss of a great battle in their age long fight against popular ignorance and carelessness. And America, often belittled by foreigners as a land of little culture and less scholarship, will be quite defenceless against the jibes of its European detractors...
...will be the closest race of the day, and again Paulsen and Miller will fight it out for first place and I am going to commit an act of heresy by predicting that Paulsen will nose out Miller, and Lundell will be third. In the Quarter Mile I can't see anybody but Ross of Yale with Malick and Peet of Harvard second and third, the time 49 3-5 seconds...
...week. Macauley Smith of Yale should take third. If the day is not too windy it would not be suprising to see a mill under 4 minutes, 20 seconds. In the Two Miles Reid of Harvard is in a class by himself. Second and third should be a good fight between Briggs of Yale, Smith of Yale, and King and Flaksman of Harvard. The dope, however, points to the two Elis in second and third places. The High Hurdles we will have to concede to Yale's four timber toppers, Sheldon, Edwards. Campbell or Game. In the Low Hurdles...
...second place. Locke of Harvard should win the Shot Put and the Discus with Pratt second in the Shot and third in the Discus. Brandenburg of Yale, if he keeps his present form will place second in the Discus, while Stone of Yale and Guarnaccia of Harvard should fight it out for the other place in the Shot. The Broad Jump sees three Sophomores fighting it out again as they did last year in the Harvard Yale, Freshman Meet. French of Harvard should win with Brandenburg of Yale second, and White of Harvard third. In the Javelin, Yale...