Word: insult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observe that Dr. Clarence True Wilson is quoted (TIME. Oct. 19) as saying, in explanation nf having seemed to insult the American...
...seriousness. The determination to win at all costs has overridden things which properly precede it in importance, among them a decent respect for the rights of individuals. In the present case that determination has revealed itself in a ruthless professionalism which has not scrupled even to cast an implicit insult at its football rival. The implication that Notro Dame was not unwilling in bribe a member of the Southern California squad considerably dulls the luster of the Trojan victory...
Probably the greatest reason that Stanford argues for keeping the axe hidden is that her opponents could not Bear the cutting insult which would result from such uncalled for display. "There is too much to be risked for so little gain in taking the Axe out of the vault this year." Such a statement is almost an axiom. Whosever vault it is, the reaxion of California would be more than keen. Would men not spare their opponents' feelings, the situation might become un-Bearable...
...corresponding to the present date, the little college of Alfred, at that time unknown to the realm of sports writers, met the big Blue Team. The result of the mouse struggling with the mountain was inevitable: Yale ran up a score of sixty-six points, and, as if adding insult to injury, she sent in three complete teams to devour what was left of the carcass...
...proceed to insult West Point immediately after one of the most sportsmanlike, most brilliant, and most interesting games that Harvard has ever played against any college? Is it in the same spirit that made Harvard sever relations with Princeton? For since that time, to many of us Army has filled the gap left vacant in the "Big Three...