Word: plowed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...some real football, especially in the third quarter, when the Crimson took the ball from Harvard's 18-yard line and carried it straight down the field across the Penn. State goal line. It was an 82-yard march made by short but sure advances, a flash of that plow-like attack that has been used so gloriously by past Harvard teams...
...unique page to English literature. Negro faithfulness cannot be overrated. In the old days the southerners entrusted the protection of their wives, mothers, sweethearts and daughters to negroes. Today the newspapers are filled with accounts of their atrocious crimes. This is the direct result of taking them from the plow and setting them at the spelling book. Mr. Booker Washington's level-headed work in coaxing them back to manual labor is praiseworthy in the extreme. Granting the negro his freedom instantaneously was a mistake, but above all the mistake of granting them the right to vote is to blame...