Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green Mountain State
Still as independent as George Norris himself, Republican Vermont went Republican Maine one better in 1936 by refusing a $10,000,000 National Parkway gift while Maine accepted Passamaquoddy. Yet to make doubly sure, the Green Mountain State still rears Vermonters as independent of her Republican traditions as Stephen A. Douglas, the Little Giant whom she bore and nursed at her Abolitionist breast to lead the last Democratic stand against Abraham Lincoln...
...this season, the team has had no acid test, winning both the Green wood Men's Club and Providence Boy's Club meets with the greatest of ease, and the annual Alumni obstacle also caused no difficulty. According to Ulen, these encounters served primarily to give him an idea who's who and what's what; and in general, the squad's performance was very encouraging. Several facts with a slightly pessimistic hue, however, were forcibly revealed...
Until that time few reputable witnesses had ever seen the wonders of the Yellow stone. In 1806 John Colter, a private soldier in the Lewis & Clark expedition, came back with stories of hot fountains and pools of yellow, pink and green mud too fantastic to be believed. In 1869 three amateur explorers made a 36-day pack trip into what was already known as "Colter's Hell," came back to report that they were so overwhelmed by what they saw that they would not risk their reputations by describing...
...game between the Eli and Indian Yearlings saw the high-water mark in penalties. A nice round twenty were handed out, evenly divided between the sextets. A fellow named Conant was outstandingly tough for the Green, while Eli right defenseman Kite was no angel. The referee saw fit to banish this lad five times, one of them on a major charge...