Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generations, right back into the blood-and-iron days of the nineties and early nineteen-hundreds, the days, of turtle neck sweaters and pale ale, of law term grades and high batting averages, the Yale senior has invariably made graceful gesture in favor of the Phi Beta Kappa key--at least on the statistical blank handed about the class a few weeks before graduation. As to which honor he has spent most of his time pursuing during the preceding four years, that is perhaps another story. Even if he did spent more time chasing the fleet football than what...
...surrounding counties and states, and here are celebrated the immemorial sports of the West--horse racing, steer roping, Maverick races, broncho busting, and many others that require skill and strength. The stage coach race, established as Mr. Furlong said, before the "Safety First" idea, is another exciting and neck-breaking event...
...this third consecutive win. Driscoll had the pole at the start of the race, and Burke was lined up on the outside. This slight difference was enough to enable the former to lead to the first corner, and he was never headed, although Burke was running neck and neck with him most of the time. The winner's time was 1 minute 17 1-5 seconds. Sidney Loslie of the New York A. C. took third place several yards behind Burke...
...scored once on individual work and once in an admirable bit of team-work with Samborski. The Dean five soon came back, however, when McCardy opened the visitors' score with a basket after an individual dribble through the yearling guards. The rest of the half was featured by a neck and neck race for the lead, and it was only when the second period had begun that the visitors were able to force their way to the front. For nearly half the final session they retained this advantage when the yearlings offered a sturdy resistance and finally...
...Record of penalties imposed by order of the Circle of the Elders: (1) Gaka Iguantec, for failure to remove his neck-ornament during the morning service--two volumes of the Contours of Andean Stratification, to be read and reported in outline...