Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...self reliance, and gives him courage to bear up under defeat, and to try anew with fresh vigor. The danger in playing football is certainly no greater than in many of the other good out-door sports such as polo, and no out-door game is worth a rap into which no accident or mishap could possibly find...
...Tuesday morning every man who was in so early was waked by a loud rap on his door. A series of low groans came from the rooms and then the snap of many incandescent lights. Fifteen minutes later troops of men came hurrying into the dining room where breakfast was waiting on the table. The train for Cincinnati left at 7.20. During the morning there was the usual amount of sleeping and card playing and it was not till the announcement of dinner at Collumbus that the men really awoke. At 12.15 the train rolled into the station and when...