Word: pluckiest
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...flowers at a group of German climbers leaving to attempt the Mountain of Horror. The party was led by Willi Merkl, who had failed to reach the top two years before when his porters, mountain-sick and frightened, balked. This year pains were taken to find the hardiest and pluckiest hillmen obtainable. Last week came news of disaster...
...last four minutes of play, the Harvard football team found itself. Although many followers are disappointed in the final score, none fail to hall Saturday's achievement as one of the pluckiest exhibitions ever seen in the history of college football. A team which can fight like that does not know when it is defeated...
...most important factor in determining whether the season shall be considered successful or not. We are confident that our team at its best is a better team than any Yale can place on the field, and we are equally confident that the Harvard team will play its pluckiest and best game today. We believe it will not come amiss to thank Coach Pieper for his untiring devotion to the best interests of the baseball team, and also to thank those who have unselfishly attended practice, with no hope of making the team, but with a desire to help develop...
...these games the Harvard lead was so small that a goal from the field would have sufficed to turn the tables; in two it practically took away all chance of tying the score; in the Pennsylvania game of last year it made us lose the pluckiest game I have ever seen on a football field. It is true that in the last game we were handicapped by the wind, but once over that goal line, we should have won the game, wind or no wind. I do not wish to croak, but when it is such hard work to make...
...above our normal spirit and have saved us from a disaster which would have had its effect on the good name of the University. Every man on the field yesterday must have felt that the game which Harvard put up against Pennsylvania was one of the noblest, manliest, and pluckiest things ever seen on a football field. Only one objectionable thing happened and the man at fault amply atoned for his guilt by an apology. Pennsylvania, too, is deserving of the highest praise. Her work was perfectly straightforward football and her whole attitude was honorable and sportsmanlike. The cheering...