Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final set, Harada began playing hard tennis. The first two games he ran through without losing a point. In the third, however, Briggs started a brief rally, and succeeded in piling up a 40-love advantage, but the Japanese player pulled himself out of the hole with little difficulty, and then captured the next three games in short order...
...from the same institution a year later. He then spent two years at the University of Bonn and returned to this country to receive his degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of California in 1899. He served as instructor in botany at Brown University and at Woods Hole, Mass, until he went to the University of California again in 1901. During the next eight years he remained there, becoming an associate professor in 1907. Two years later he came to the University as an assistant professor and was made a full professor...
...strength in the Bruin play. The wealth of reserve material found difficulty in eclipsing the feats of the recruits, two of whom, sent in as substitutes, seem to have won at least the right to start in Brown's big game with Chicago on Saturday. Smith filled the tackle hole left by the graduation of last year's captain, Spellman, and stopped every play that came through his side of the line. Keefer, who formerly played for the University of Michigan, proved a sensation in the backfield promising to rival Pollard, the greatest back in Brown football history...
Harvard graduates, who are fostering the Knot Hole Gang, are W. J. Bingham '16, and H. R. Hardwick...
...sick of Casey, now. I could kill him sometimes. I have done him so often that it has become part of my physical machine and my mind wanders anywhere while I am doing it. Then I wake up, forget where I am, and am in a hole. I have Casey miss that ball six or seven times, and I have had him miss it only once. It never makes any difference to the crowd...