Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the last few years the one fault of Harvard teams has been that they have not won victories. After a brief dawn of hope this year a Harvard team has again seen victory snatched from its grasp. Almost everything else this Harvard team has strength, speed, and scrappiness but victory it, as yet has not and, as every one knows, victory is the greatest of all the virtues any team can have...
...stood out as one of the bright lights in a rather dull season. In his Sophomore year he gained prominence and a high rating by a brilliant 47-yard dash through the entire Dartmouth team in the last minute of play to snatch what seemed certain victory from the grasp of the invaders. Since that time French has been a consistent performer in all the games he has taken part in. His chief weakness lies in his susceptibility to injuries which have often kept him on the side lines when his presence in the line up might have been...
...hands, dirty face, dirty clothes. He explained to the reception committee that he had been directing the coaling of the cruiser Yaktimo; asked that no photographs be taken. Then said he: "Honolulu may be called a place where the hands of peace, stretched by Japan and the U. S., grasp each other...
Perhaps Governor Zimmerman's endorsement by the W. C. T. U. and Anti-Saloon League helped ruin him. Wisconsin is an oldtime Wet. Perhaps the Hon. Zimmerman's former membership in the La Follette contingent helped split Candidate Beck's vote. Perhaps the La Follette grasp on Wisconsin is slipping in the second generation. Or, perhaps Nominee Walter Jodok Kohler is a wealthy manufacturer with a real flair for politics, a convincing program...
...married. Thank goodness not! A man should be more than a poor lieutenant before he marries. . . . So I eagerly grasp this opportunity, which is given me by my father...