Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year the preliminary showing of the traditional rivals has reached a low mark unique in the history of Harvard Yale football. Each team has won three games and lost four showing at its best flashes of power that seemed to presage a far more impressive record on the eve of the big classic than that now presented...
Both teams have taken the measures of Dartmouth rising to their supreme heights of power in overthrowing the Big Green. The Hanoverians said that the Harvard line played a far stronger game than the Blue forward wall, but the Eli backs were more successful in stopping the always dangerous Dartmouth passing attack. This weakness against an air attack has been fatal to Harvard all season; it was under cover of a barrage of passes that Holy Cross came from behind in the second half to lower the Crimson colors and later Brown showed the ease with which aerial thrusts might...
...General Feng, the Christian who is now allied with the Cantonese, said recently. 'I think the power of the Nationalist armies and the secret of their steadfastness in conflict with superior forces is that they are bound up with the people and are fighting for the national cause...
...prosperity has been greatly overrated, states the National Catholic Welfare Conference, which through its work among 18,000,000 churchgoers should know. Admitting that wage levels are at the highest yet known, it adds that living costs are correspondingly high, that the buying power of farmers, who are a third of the consuming public, has decreased, that "great numbers" of men make but $3 and $4 a day, "great numbers" of women $12-$14 a week, while "great numbers" of both men and women have no work at all. The $1,000,000,000 of U. S. investments abroad, apart...
...shifty, hard-charging, with an uncanny knack of slipping out of the grasp of a tackler who apparently had them downed, theirs was the glory of the day. Slipping through gaps in the Crimson forward wall, they tore off big gains, and gave an exhibition of sustained and versatile power that stamps them as one of the greatest carrying combinations of the season...