Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been having difficulty in finding feed for our pack-mules recently, because the tropical vegetation was too rich for their constitutions, and dried grass was not available. Therefore one of the natives ingeniously suggested that the bunches of leaves be used for feed. He proceeded to pick up a bunch and give it to a mule hitched nearby. The animal sniffed at it, bit off one leaf and drew it into his mouth, then ejected it in evident distaste...
...third cut off Stone and ended the rally. The University gained its last two runs in the fifth, Conlon walked, got to second when the ball trickled out of shortstop's glove on a throw from catcher, and crossed the plate as Thayer's hard grounder skimmed the grass along the first base line for a triple...
Maver, who caged five baskets and counted eleven times on free tries, played a sterling game for the Blue Grass men, and McMillin, although be failed to count heavily in the scoring column, was quick thinking, and his passing allowed his running mate, Bedford, to count several times. McLeish played a whirlwind game for the Crimson, caging six baskets, five of which came in the initial period. In the second half, the Colonels kept such close watch of him that Fitts was enabled to break away for successful shots four times. Fourteen points out of twenty-one tries from...
...answer, "A large number of determined and persistent candidates." Twenty-two years ago the writer saw at Queen's Club in London a Harvard high hurdler who had worked patiently for years without making the team, finally triumph over the best of Yale, Oxford and Cambridge on a grass track in the then excellent time of 15 3-5 seconds. There have been scores of instances in which men who showed little promise at first finally contributed largely to Harvard success...
...chief feature of the game was a long fly by Amory Houghton '21. At least it is claimed that it was a fly, although some maintain that it was only a mosquito and fouled off the bat and was lost in the long grass behind the catcher, Robb Sagendorph '22, who was prevented from seeing where it went by a playful trick of the manager, who tripped him up as he turned to look. Houghton, however, swears that it was a long fly and went into the river. The ball did not float, so there is no means of verifying...