Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mural sports were substituted entirely for the present system of intercollegiate competition," he continued, "there would not be the training which is such an important factor in the system in vogue today. Indifference about practice and training would be the inevitable aftermath of such an innovation, and we would lose the outstanding feature--discipline Furthermore, in the event that five or six of the best players were quartered in the same dormitory, the competition would be obviously unfair I maintain that intercollegiate contests with Yale are necessary in order to maintain a standard of discipline and training which...
...fiery member of the Committee is Senator Brookhart, its Chairman, a bucolic rifleshot, with an evangelistic temperament. Senator Wheeler of Montana, colleague of Senator Walsh, prime mover of the oil investigation, is the active prosecutor. Wheeler is young, radical, a hard fighter, a smiling fighter, somewhat inclined, nevertheless, to lose his head. Strangely enough, he has the accent of Massachusetts, his native State. For comrades, Brookhart and Wheeler have the tart Moses from New Hampshire; Jones of Washington, normally placid and a bit heavy, but roaring, desk-pounding when aroused; Ashurst from Arizona, with a substantial "bazoo...
...Lose Sense of Proportion...
...boxing team were established," the coach said, "boxing would become too important in the lives of the members of the team. I know from experience that when boxing gets a hold on a young man he cannot get it out of his mind. If this happened boxing would lose its place in the college, which is merely that of a form of exercise and physical development. It should at all times be subordinate to the academic work...
Team A won every match of the season including the state championship, in which it did not even lose an individual match. Though defeated by Marlowe of the Union Boat Club in his initial match. Harrington lost but two games the entire remainder of the year. He also starred at number four on the victorious Boston National Inter-city championship team...