Word: nordics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delightful as the prospect is, especially those who condemn, rightfully or not, the semi-professional methods of collegiate athletics, it cannot become a real condition unless the grandstands drop a little of their Nordic earnestness, and exchange a little of their burning fervor for the more suave encounters of Latin contestants. So long as the spectators fill football with the same excitement with which the Pilgrims fought the devil, so long as they feel that it is a dishonor to lose and a matter of conscience to win, the same rigid regime of fasting and praying will train the povitiates...
...Klan believes in the upbuilding of the American nation?founded, as history emphatically declares, on the supremacy of the white race, the genius of the Nordic and Anglo-Saxon peoples and the free private interpretation of God's word...
...History has proved, and is proving daily that only Nordic and Anglo-Saxon peoples have reached a high level of intelligence...
Match play suited Upson until the semifinal. There he became impaled on the putter of W. H. Taft of Dartmouth, who promptly sank back 6 and 5 before the Nordic siege-gunner, Dexter Cummings, defending champion. To the Intercollegiates a two-year victory was unique...
...anthropology of the tale, as given in the press, involves the use of the popular phrase "Nordic stock," as well as the blessed words "Paleolithic or cro-Magnon type" and "neolithic Mongolian." But the visitors will have to submit their jaws to the calipers of local science before these adjectives can be sorted...