Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...common love of out-of-door sports, the two countries differ in almost every particular. . . . Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, merely to speak the names in a single breath raises an atmosphere of jealous and aggressive rivalry. . . . Oxford, Cambridge -- there is an immediate suggestion of fifteenth century architecture, overgrown with ivy." In a word, English athletics have none of that bitterness too often seen here when some disputed point of small importance is held up to public view for weeks by the daily press. Such publicity, according to English ideas, smacks too strongly of professionalism, or at least lays undue...