Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waxed hot for hours under the vigilant eye of Boston police. Neither side could get the advantage. Darkness came with the score tied. They carried the fight indoors. Banquetting followed. At 3 next morning empty cases were seen piled high about the scene of the last stage of the fray. The CRIMSON editors were still upright. They had maintained their dignity. Harvard had gained the victory. They quitted themselves like gentlemen...
...past ten days Coach Arnold Horween '21 has been running his men through hard workouts, even to the extent, in several instances, of testing plays out in short scrimmages, and he believes his squad to be in good enough condition now to go through a full length fray...
...General: "A disturbance confronted me as I approached my house in Washington one afternoon last week. Two neighborhood dogs were attempting to chew up my dog. I intervened, separated the snarling trio, had my right hand mangled. Said I, later: 'I was the only one bitten in the fray. All the dogs emerged unhurt...
...Blanton of Texas was a liar. Mr. Blanton, who wants to close the cinema theatres on Sunday, leaped at Mr. Bloom, who wants them open; put his Texan arm around Mr. Bloom's neck. They grappled, heaved, fell across the committee table. One L. B. Schloss joined the fray, was knocked to the floor, kicked. The Rev. Harry L. Bowlby, secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance, was reported as having picked out the smallest man in the room (a stenographer), knocked off his glasses, punched him.* Somebody called the police, but they did not arrive until after...
...Pool '28, the second of the two University players who emerged from the fray victorious, defeated P. de L. Casanove by scores of 15 to 12, 16 to 18, 15 to 7, 13 to 15 and 15 to 11. This match was as full of tense moments as the Bassett Jackson...