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Word: frayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holbrook '30 was the main cog in the forward line in the New Year's Eve fray and his clever pass-work was a repeated threat on the Canadian goal. Batchelder showed up better than ever before at defense and fed the forwards continually after breaking up the strong Toronto attacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SEXTET FACES TORONTO AGAIN TONIGHT | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

...third chukker Coach F. D. Sharp sent his second team into the fray, a lead of 11 to 9 having been established. Though unable to score, this combination also showed possibilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY AND 1932 POLO TEAMS TRIUMPH | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Late in this tilt, it is stated, the onlookers were treated to the greatest exhibition of generalship ever seen on a football field. It was Harvard's ball within drop-kicking distance and Captain C.E. Brickley '15, injured and on the bench, was sent into the fray apparently to try for a goal from the field and the satisfaction of scoring against Yale in the year of his captaincy. Using Brickley as a decoy, far out of the way of harm, Watson '16, at quarter, proceeded to score a touchdown by a seres of five plays, ending in a forward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Football Series a History of Two Waves of Victory | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

Then came the next season the great moral victory of the Crimson team. With M.A. Cheek '26 playing stellar football an underdog Harvard eleven held the Blue cohorts to a 0 to 0 tie, in weather the most unfavorable. The 1926 fray in the Bowl is remembered by undergraduates for the Harvard touchdown brought about by a pass, Henry Chauncey '27 to W.G. Saltonstall '28, which gave the Crimson rooters a moment of hope. The game ended, however, with Yale in the lead, 12 to 7. Last year's tilt in the Stadium brought out the steady power the Blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Football Series a History of Two Waves of Victory | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...heroic vicissitudes. At one time, sorely defeated, the Generalissimo resigned his command and retired to his native village (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). Within a few months he had cheered up, married a sister of the surviving widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, and was seen victoriously back in the fray. Just as Russia had supplied the cash and propaganda to assist Chiang in conquering South China, so a new ally appeared to lend crushing weight to Nationalism's conquest of the North. This new ally was (and is) the so-called "Christian" Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First President | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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