Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official forecast for today, according to the aforementioned establishment, is "Fair, with little change in temperature; moderate west winds...
...fickle Tiger went wild and made a big killing on Saturday, the Army mule balked in more than mulish obstinacy, a Boston college back missed a crucial goal after touchdown, and three of Joe Forecast's predictions collapsed without a murmur. Such trifling disasters as these, however, hardly ruffled the calm surface of his self-satisfaction, for he had defied a legion of sport editors, the table of comparative scores and the whole city of Providence in picking Harvard to win, and by the margin of three points is his prediction justified...
Williams held Amherst to a surprisingly low score, on the basis of the forecast analysis, and the three complete upsets take some of the glory from the accurate Dartmouth-Chicago prognostication. Nothing, however, can dim the triumph of Joe Forecast's first attempt to guess a Harvard score. Harvard won, and Joe has saved his far-flung fame, his reputation, and his shirt...
...departing from my hitherto unbroken rule of refraining from picking the winner of Harvard games by forecasting the Harvard-Brown game today. Harvard will win, or else let the name of Joe Forecast be dragged forever in the dust. Harvard will win, or else never again let the pen of Joe Forecast be dipped to ink. Harvard will win or else Joe Forecast will lose his far-flung fame, his reputation, and his shirt...
What are odds, be they 2 to 1, 3 to 1, or 5 to 1? What are 200-pound lines and 10-second backfields? With courage in their hearts, with iron in their souls, with the god of battles above them, and Joe Forecast on their side, the men of Harvard will make the greatest comeback of the season's gridiron history...