Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...former reverses of fortune, when it defeated the Yale chapter in the annual game on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon. Broad-browed scholars who, though familiar with Newton's laws of motion, had never before tried the effect of willow on horse-hide, rose to the occasion and mashed the pill into a pulp. The result,--six runs in the first inning and seven more in the course of the game, while the visitors could barely nose out ten tallies. The features of the contest were Gilday's screaming homer to left, and an all-but-double-play, Anderson to Gilday...
...because we know all about it, but it don't look right to the outside world that is scrutinizing us close. He never beat us once, but from what he printed you'd think we never got a game, and that the Lampoon had about the classiest gang of pill-casters that ever swung a bat. He has made his last joke, darn him. . . . R.I.P...