Word: growlingly
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...Crimson quintet will attempt to silence the Bulldog's growl this evening when the Yale five invades the Hemenway court. That growl will be none the less ferocious because the Eli quintet has been considerably maltreated of late by the Intercollegiate League teams...
John Harvard has always had to do with ferocious animals. If it is not the growl of the Bull-dog, it is the roar of the Tiger; and today when the estimable puritanical gentleman goes down into the Palmer Stadium, he will be very wary, for he has felt the Tiger's claws. In his lair the Tiger is particularly wily. But John will watch his step and keep his finger on the trigger, for only twice in the past has be "done in" the Tiger in his new Stadium...
Little by little the dispute over the meaning of this entry will grow until it includes in one vast growl of argument all the people from the hereditary janitors down to the sovereigns of the wrench and the nut. When it reaches the last named arbiters of human progress, the machinery, being neglected, will jam, whereupon the lights will go out. The growl of argument will then change to one great roar of anger...
...only fair to warn him that there is a cry about the Square, requesting that the same treatment be given him as the possum; "Carve him to the bone". A peculiar sort of hospitality, that! But for that matter a peculiar sort of quest; we have heard that growl before--it means business...
...installing a staff of chemists to cooperate with the coaches of mere fundamentals and tactics. When Connecticut soil is restored with lime, and when vetches, soy beans, field peas, clover and alfalfa furnish the needed nitrogen to farms and pastures in that state, then the Bull-dog can growl in his deepest bass--"Harvard, Good-night...