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Word: overwhelm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...moral purpose to purify athletics. All this internal disorder shows beyond question that an intercollegiate athletic league composed of more than two members cannot live in peace and harmony. There will be combinations and wire-pulling and compromise and friction as long as two or three can unite to overwhelm a third or fourth; it will be politics instead of athletics, treason and hatred instead of loyalty and good feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/6/1893 | See Source »

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