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Word: furious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Tiger team, Trimble, by his forward passes, Strubing, by his marvelous field generalship, and Captain McGraw, as the mainstay of the Princeton line, were the outstanding stars. The University eleven was taken unaware by the furious initial onslaught of the Tigers and it took half the game before they could pull together and save themselves from defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDEFEATED ELEVEN WILL REPRESENT HARVARD IN CONTEST WITH YALE IN STADIUM THIS AFTERNOON | 11/22/1919 | See Source »

...outside world has no conception of the importance of pie in a comedy. . . . . When it is realized that at least ten pies are thrown to record a perfect hit one may realize the custard condition of the set after a furious bombardment of five or ten minutes. . . . The whole place is ankle deep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Wilful Waste Makes Woeful Laughter. | 12/11/1917 | See Source »

...isolated a salient by a heavy barrage thus cutting off the men stationed there. An attack was launched in which apparently one company of shock troops took part. With the odds of ten to one the result could not be in doubt for long. The skirmish was short and furious; how many Germans were killed and wounded is difficult to ascertain as the attacking party carried back all its casualties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FIRST BATTLE. | 11/7/1917 | See Source »

...strokes to the minute--and in spite of newspaper reports it is very seldom that any four mile crew can attain to this average--taking 20 minutes to row, the oarsman will have breathed 600 times. In a three mile race where the spurting would be fast and furious because of the shorter distance to be covered, we may safely assume that an average of 36 strokes to the minute be attained and therefore if the race lasted 15 minutes the oarsman would have breathed 540 times, is only 60 times less than in the four mile distance. Moreover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COACH ABBOT OF YALE CREW FINDS FOUR MILE RACE BENEFICIAL---TIGER COACH HAS OPPOSITE VIEW | 1/20/1917 | See Source »

...cheering sections can sing "Harvardiana" and "Our Director" to Princeton and Yale with the same spirit that they showed Saturday, the football players will have to play a fast and furious game to keep in time. Enthusiasm was the only dry thing at the Penn. State game, and no amount of rain could dampen it. This is the spirit that raises our hopes and gives the team a standard that it will work to meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGNS OF THE TIMES. | 10/27/1913 | See Source »

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