Word: prowesses
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...make to the little boys on the losing teams-that between a special student and a ringer. He asserted, in effect, that since the Battle of Waterloo had been lost many times on the playing fields of Massee, he had been advised to strengthen the school's prowess in sport by judicious advertising. His advertisement had been printed "for some time," and rallied to Mr. Slack's service, he declared, "eight fine fellows" (among them the captains of the Massee football and basketball teams). For these he cut the tuition rates from $1,000 to $500. In secondary...
...crepe. There are some Spaniards who have not been to a bull-killing since, some who still bow their heads and cross themselves when Gallito's name is spoken. But not many. The sport is too popular to permit of a reigning favorite, like Juan, being eclipsed by the prowess of a dead man, or even by the exploits of great bull-stabbers, retired but still alive, as Rocardo Torres ("Bombita") and Sanchez Mejia...
...Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay published a book entitled The Golden Whales of California and Other Poems. Thereafter, many sport writers adopted Poet Lindsay's picturesque phrase, applying it to football teams of California University as a cognomen thought to be appropriate in view of the prowess of those teams. TIME thanks Subscriber Mott for recalling the official epithet...
...addition to the whole of the University fall track squad members of the cross-country team will compete in the two-mile run, and a few graduate students, who are ineligible to compete for the track team, will here have an opportunity of showing their prowess...
...match between Wheeler and Coleman hinged largely on the prowess of endurance of the two contestants. Coleman, in the second set, who had taken the first set 6-1, finally won the second...