Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large part of the game in spite of his injury, to Owen for his long run, and to--, but every man on the team outplayed himself and credit cannot hardly be divided. The truth is that in spite of odds, or injuries, or anything else, the team won by sheer will to win, where no critic believed triumph was likely, and so added one more splendid conquest to the list of Harvard's victories over Yale. The motto of the parade last Thursday has changed. "We did beat Yale...
...their full purpose the few opportunities which arose. Time and again the Yale team commenced its smashing running offensive when yet deep in its own territory, and just so often the advance stopped at the crucial moment partly through the stiffened Crimson defence and partly through the sheer fatigue of the powerful Blue backs. The long advances told on the Eli eleven and it lacked the final punch when that punch became essential...
...length ahead of A. C. M. 1. It was the superior weight of the former combination that gave it the necessary margin of victory. Out - scaling their lighter rivals by a full fifteen pounds to the man, the football oarsmen forced their way to a commanding lead by sheer power of stroke, a last minute spurt by the autumn crew boat falling to cut down their lead by any appreciable distance. I. F. M. 1, E. F. M. 2, A. C. M. 2, and A. C. M. 3 trailed in the order named...
Classic literature is full of parody. The Batrachomyomachia--"Battle of the Frogs and Mice"-- a travesty of the heroic epic, was long attributed to Homer, and certainly is as old as the fifth century before Christ. Aristophanes mimicked Euripides with side splitting and enraging effectiveness. Cervantes' Don Quixote is sheer parody. In our own language we have a great volume of comic imitation. Shakespeare parodied and was parodied. Milton's ponderous solemnity was the subject of endless ribald travesty in his own momentous metre. Shelley did not shame to lampoon dear old Wordsworth...
When asked if he believed that an educational test for voters would remedy the present defects, he stated that such a measure would be out of the question. He again emphasized the part that the trouble was not with the voting system, but with the sheer neglect of many of the educated citizens either to take an active interest in politics or to perform the simple task of casting their vote. "The college man owes a special duty to the country for his education, which he pays in time of war, but not in times of peace...