Word: looming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinctly unathletic factor-probation--will loom large in shaping events for the hockey team in the tough second half of its schedule. Several much-needed men are already doing their only skating in the direction of academic doom, and if you believe Coach Chase's typically gloomy forebodings, the rest of the team are all due to join them...
Army's bone-crushers loom as a threat to the Varsity's physical well-being if nothing more, while Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale are all powerful opponents, relying on brains as well as brawn. Return engagements with B.U. and B.C. will provide little let-up between these Ivy League games...
Stumbling Blocks Loom...
...strength comes as a result of adversity, the skaters may expect to rebound from a rough time this Christmas to find smoother sailing in February and March against their traditional Ivy League foes. Right now such future opponents as Yale and Dartmouth loom as heavy favorites, with Princeton as an even-money choice...
...long and losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver whole generations of mankind to the greasiest fry cooks of nether Hell. But in half a century of blissful self-delusion he has failed to perceive that the family automobile is the most monstrous engine...