Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Numerous jumps, dashes, relay races for high schools and prep schools were notable chiefly for the fortitude of the spectators who sat in the cold & wet until everything was over...
Speeches and good resolutions were duly recorded, in order to be issued in a fat handbook early in 1929. The chief topic of speculation among these teachers and superintendents of grade schools, high schools and "prep" schools was the speech...
...phrase proves your adjective to have been well chosen; but even so, the point is somewhat blunted by your devoting most of two columns to three of Wooster's illustrious sons. I was privileged to know them all; Dr. Elias Compson, "77, Dean ("pink-slips"), as little as possible; "Prep" Arthur H. in the vague background; Karl, '07, as Captain and left end of the team on which I played an intermittent right end. Largely due to Karl, that team was not scored upon until its final game, when a soggy Columbus field enabled a heavier Ohio State eleven...
...narrow victory over the Dartmouth 1931 players, but has won by substantial scores from Andover, Exeter, and the Harvard Seconds, and in all its games has shown great ground gaining power. The Elis, on the other hand, have lost a hard fought game to St. John's Prep and found a much tougher opponent in Andover than the Crimson team...
...language. In spots it is rough and, it seems to me, out of place on the printed page. Perhaps it is characteristic of our age, but not more so than of most ages. Somehow it is reminiscent of "Flaming Youth" or "The Plastic Age," literature acceptable to adolescent prep-school minds but hardly of lasting importance...