Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON team succeeded in bringing five runs over the pan. Then the ha-ha boys, enraged at seeing the game slipping from their hands, doctored up the score, and refused to continue to play. The Lampoon pitcher was carried fainting off the field on account of the terrible ordeal he had been through, and the sun set on another CRIMSON victory...
...that the result will be an evenly distributed and not too energetic manifestation of interest in the teams, similar perhaps to the mildly manifested eagerness displayed in intellectual pursuits which is causing most of the trouble. Just what would become of the athletes who were able to survive the ordeal of such a training season, the writer does not dwell on. Perhaps he sees in that phase of the situation the surest remedy of all-when men won't want to be members of the teams--with the result that soon the teams will become discouraged through lack of material...
...present day, defining and outlining the powers of the "Star Chamber," from its origin to the end of the sixteenth century, when it was consolidated with the present courts of King's Bench and Chancery. The remainder of the lecture was devoted to the discussion of trials by ordeal, by battle and by jury...