Word: grit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greatest Exhibition of Grit...
...know," Thorp said, "that the greatest exhibition of grit I ever saw on a football field concerns a man you know. It was in 1910, and Penn State beat Pittsburgh 3-0. State had a tackle, one of the best there ever was, and he had water on the knee, had to be carried to the field. They put ice and stuff on his knee. The other team were confident that he couldn't play more than a few minutes. Well, he played an all-American game for 60 minutes. Name was Dick Harlow...
Plenty of good boxing and grit was displayed in the semi-finals and finals of the University championship boxing tournament held in the Indoor Athletic Building last night...
Imperial Garden Party, Bright & early next morning a round hundred admirers of Haile Selassie gathered in Whitehall to see him lay a wreath on the Cenotaph honoring Britain's War dead. With dogged British grit they waited all morning and all afternoon until finally dispersed by a thunderstorm. All through the day Haile Selas sie had been demanding that the Foreign Office accord him "official permission" to lay the wreath which meanwhile drooped and withered in his hallway. Captain An thony Eden's subordinates had kept insisting all day that His Majesty should merely apply to Scotland Yard...
Contracting severe leg cramps at the 12 mile mark in the North Medford Club 20 mile race Saturday, the cross-country captain managed to last out 19 1/2 miles by pure grit. Overcome by exhaustion at this point, he wavered from the track and collided with a tree. After recovery at a nearby house, the verteran harrier announced that henceforth he would stick to the two mile...