Word: prowesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allotting handicaps to the Yearlings, Jaakko encountered serious difficulty, as few have ever run the four and one-half mile course before. Last year, he greatly underestimated their prowess, with the result that several finished before a record-breaking Bob Playfair hove in sight...
...Freshman yearbook has always been published in May. It has been the custom to include in it the history of the class, its social life, and its athletic prowess. In order to insert this data it has been necessary to make a charge of five dollars to all prospective purchasers...
With his usual audacity, Mr. Hoeing held it off with a stick until two Yard cops helped him down the amazed animal. Leaving it dead and headless, he retired to Holworthy, the proud possessor of the bloody token of his prowess...
However, the girls go on to say "he is average, not particularly interesting, enjoys carefree simple pleasures, and has a high opinion of his athletic prowess." The terse comments leave us to draw what crumbs of satisfaction we can in asserting...
Where, we rise to enquire, and on what grounds should we feel disheartened? Our slap in the face comes from our general lack of desire to browbeat intellectually our dates. We're proud of our athletic prowess, but we don't wear our Phi Beta Kappa Keys to dazzle our girl friends...