Word: rankest
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Dates: during 1878-1878
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...backed out of the R. A. A. C. and now, in refusing to row Cornell in eight-oars, she shows the same lack of courage. If this gentleman really believes what he has written, he must have an unlimited faculty for swallowing utter nonsense and twaddle of the rankest description. It is all very well for Cornell and Columbia to accuse Yale and Harvard of cowardice, and if it affords them innocent amusement, it assuredly has no effect upon us. All their talk will not make Harvard and Yale feel anything but that a race with Cornell and Columbia...