Word: put
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hesitate to throw ice and butter, while some favored napkins soaked in water. The firing of mashed potatoes and chocolate cream pie was rare but effective. One man dared to swing the catsup bottle round his head, but was deterred by his companions before this project could be put into execution. The evening was very pleasant on the whole. The waiters removed the debris promptly and the costs were easily made up by omitting some of the luxuries from future menus. It is to be hoped that this time-honored and harmless custom will never suffer the fate of Bloody...
...hard tackling; the linemen know what it means to play through 60 minutes of hard, damaging work. Up to the Princeton game the team was distinctly an unknown quantity, but today the graduates of Harvard, the public and the coaches realize that they have an eleven which has been put to the test, and even with many of the breaks against them, were not found wanting...
...travelling through your country," he said, "I have noticed that you lack unity of purpose. You seem anxious to make some change but you do not know what. Your first aim is to get more money, it seems, whereas it should be to put the money which you have, and which you will get, to some use so that good may be derived from...
...larger score indicates the original weak offensive power of the team. The following week Bates was defeated 26 to 0, but despite the size of the score, the game was hard fought throughout. The victory was won by a steady drive through a considerably lighter team which, however, put up a good fight...
Although the University's defence crumpled like paper when the ball was in the middle of the field, it tightened up when the goal was threatened. The most gratifying feature of the game from the Crimson standpoint was the sterling defence put up by the team when it held Tufts for four downs on its one-yard line. Tufts was able to win because of its superior forward and lateral passing game against which the Crimson had no adequate defence. The touchdown which gave the University its second defeat since 1911 was due to a long gain by Captain Westcott...