Word: licked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swap generals with us and we'll lick the hell out of you." In this threat, shouted across trenches by boys in Blue to boys in Gray, lies perhaps the greatest tribute to General Robert Edward Lee of Virginia, the soldier who retreated his way to the forefront of military history...
...Count of Ten. Charles Ray is the bashful bruiser, the simple-minded boy who could lick the champion. James Gleason, here a cocky misogynist, is his manager. When the manager goes away, Actor Ray puts on a pink shirt, yellow gloves, a cane, and spats, marries. Instead of taking on the champion, he takes on expenses and a gambling brother-in-law. At last, for quick money he fights the champion with a broken hand, and is, of course, beaten up. His wife had given him the count...
...played on two of the greatest of the early Harvard teams. He reminisced on his experiences, saying that in the old days of small crowds and no training. "We used to get the Yale team from the station, give them a meal, take them down to the field, lick them about 20 or so to nothing and send them back on the next train...
Moving by horse again the party made a permanent camp for two weeks at Fortress Pass, during which time Ostheimer, Fuherer, Weber, de Laittre, and Maclaurin made a side trip into Lick Creek Valley. From there Mt. Catacombs was ascended for the first time, as well as Mt. "Lowell," 10,300 feet, named by the party in honor of President Lowell...
World Quart. Although the A.S.T.M. is engaged in standardizing specifications for materials used industrially and has set up 497 distinct standards, at the French Lick meeting they did nothing about establishing a world quart, about applying the metric system of weights & measures to all U. S. uses...