Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them considered a little loose. Pepper has the most dignity - now and again a little heavy. Both Pinchot and Pepper are considered much more respectable than Vare, but Boss Vare is credited with knowing most about how votes are got into ballot boxes. Pinchot is conceded to be the hardest fighter. Last week he let out as follows: "I charge that perjury and forgery are now added to ballot-box stuffing, falsification of election returns and the city-wide sticker scandal of the Vare gang of Philadelphia. . . . "The Vare penmen not only forged names but invented persons. Two Vare penmen...
...elected captain of the freshman track team, led his class to triumph over the sophomores in the annual class rush, waited on table and shined shoes (as an initiation rite). In 1907 he beat Vane H. Fennel for the right to play Mills again, and after one of the hardest court tennis matches ever played in England (it lasted two and a half hours) he won the world title, five sets to three. Mills said that he had lost because of cramps. From that day Mr. Gould has dominated court tennis. No amateurs and very few professionals could even give...
...most interesting and exciting bout of the evening was that in which H. R. Wood '27, captain-elect of next year's wrestling team, defeated A. W. Craven 3L. Although the undergraduate wrestler won by a fall in six minutes and 15 seconds, it was only after the hardest kind of a fight. The summary...
...after a season of this gaiety, I turned to something more substantial?the theatre! You know what that means?work! And just when one is slaving one's hardest one has to appear at one's very best...
...final match of the State tournament, with the two hardest hitting players in the tournament opposing each other, brought out the best squash of the competition. The champion, who reached the top of his game last week after a slow start, matched power and speed with his younger opponent. In the last game with the veteran leading by a 10-2 margin, Wright made a desperate attempt to pull the match out of the fire by discarding his hard driving game and attacking Baker's weakness on high, slow lobs to the back hand. The Crimson number one man pulled...