Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole communities gather round them to join in the old sings. But behind both waits and communities has always been the same genial, good-fellow feeling; the spirit that buffets shopping-crowds without losing its smile, braves snow and slush for errands of charity, and drains its purse in rival generosity. Whenever man want to express a mood he cannot put in common words, he turns to music and dresses it as a song. The carols are the expression of Christmas; no one can hear them without catching a tinge of that infection which was able to transform even...
...true that graduate students from other institutions have not, and should not have equal advantages with native Harvard College men. It is true that some of the graduates come here from other nearby college or universities which regard Harvard as a hated rival, and that these men can not in a few months overcome an ingrown prejudice of four years. But these men are in the minority. It is true that the graduates are obviously accorded second or third consideration in some things, such as ticket allotments. Here however, we may argue that this consideration is an effect...
...that could carry shells I know not how many miles; but it was so lamentably ignorant of human nature that it thought that it could violate women, enslave men, murder defenceless children, and make war on churches, libraries, and hospitals, in order to destroy a commercial rival, and that the civilized world would look on and see it done with only feeble and meaningless protests...
...comment. It has disgusted hundreds by its gruesome pictures of army life; it has monopolized first pages of Literary supplements and has furnished enough Letters to the Editor to keep the newspapers running for weeks. But now it is no longer alone in the field. Dos Passos has a rival: he is Senator Watson...
...danger of becoming confirmed football pessimists on account of Saturday's game, or that our faith in the team is shaken. We know they did their "darndest", as we in the stands did outs to back them. But the best part of it all is that Yale--the rival, supreme--is yet to be played. Here is a chance, if ever chance was, to come back-team and support together --and crash through with a punch that will make former Yale Game look like dummy practice...