Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...games fights seen in a Harvard ring was demonstrated by Dave Gardner, rocky heavyweight who made his debut of the season to replace Ham Turner. There was wild, unskilled swinging by both Gardner and Weed, with the Eli on the offensive. Gardner continually took Weed's long-range offerings undefended, against the ropes and in the corners a large part of the time...
Probation has taken a heavy toll in the ranks of the Freshmen, with three men ruled ineligible. Ham Turner's ample shoes will be filled by Dave Gardner, a tackle on the Freshman team last fall, he has developed a hard punch this winter, and is slated as a winner by Henry Lamar...
...near-mutiny is averted only by the sun's timely appearance. "This," proclaims Noah as the youngsters dance about him, "is the Golden Age. This is the FIRST DAY!" But darkling, doubtful Ham is not satisfied. What day is it, he wants to know. Is it Monday? Wednesday? Sunday? As close as he ever permits himself to come to impatience, Noah protests against this infernal nagging of him and God over trivial questions. Such inquisitiveness is bound to annoy the Creator. "You can't expect Him to be a saint, you know," he tells his only confidants...
...Ham, Shem, Japheth and the girls prove irredeemably wayward, human. By the time his craft comes to a perch atop Mount Ararat, Noah has even lost confidence in his distressed, slightly balmy wife. The children desert him, the animals turn savage, and poor old Noah is left sad, infirm, alone. He does not think he has quite deserved all his troubles. He doubts if their imposition has been quite "sporting" of God. But there is just one thing he wants to know. He lifts his shaggy face to heaven. "Are you satisfied?" he calls. "Are you satisfied?" And again...
...participant in two matches this season, "Ham" Turner has spent less time in actual competition than has any man on either the Freshman or Varsity teams. Two first-round knockouts have been chalked up to his credit, the first when he floored Fierman of M. I. T. in the initial encounter, and the second when he landed his haymaker on Joe Zautra of New Hampshire last Saturday. He seems like another Brad Simmons in his punching ability, and is remarkably fast for a man of his size. He prepared at Exeter where he was captain of football, sustaining an injury...