Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor sports, first place is worth 80 points, and the rest 65, 50, 40; 30, 25, 20, and 15. For special sports, 5 points will be awarded for last place, 10 for second last, and so on. For every team forfeit, when the team plays one game with each House, ten points will be deducted, or if an individual match, two points; when two games are played with each House per season, the points deducted are five and one respectively. The Committee will meet in a week to correct any errors in the system set forth...
...meaningless, a mere hodge-podge of names and inconsistencies, mere guesswork. And nothing is said by way of clearing up this hopeless jumble. Or perhaps he was being witty? Further comment needless, such statements as quoted can be most irritating. They are an insult to one's intelligence. They forfeit any claim to intellectual integrity. Alfred M. Nittle...
...Women's Press Guild, Daniel Krassner, circus weight guesser, was suddenly confronted by the First Lady of the Land. "This little lady-" he stammered, "she weighs-er-155 Ib." Mrs. Roosevelt then sat on a swinging scale which registered 145 Ib. Guesser Daniel gave her a cane as forfeit...
...local newspapers. Despite the best efforts of Mr. Nichols, there has been a tendency since President Conant's inauguration for a certain friction to arise between the Administration and the press. To allow a return of the spirit of antagonism which prevailed in other days would be to forfeit an advantage won only with much labor and much tact...
...original whip was lost, has been a will o' the wisp for antiquaries these many years. The present trophy is supposed to have been carefully plaited from the tail of that greatest of stallions, the unbeaten Eclipse. Lord Harewood was given seven days either to forfeit The Whip or agree to race his father-in-law's five-year-old Fox Earth for it at the Newmarket Spring Meeting next April...