Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side in the Dartmouth game when one of our backs scored the second T. D. which would have given us at least a tie, walking alone after the game, like a guy who gets an E in the final. And I saw the dreadful look in his eyes when he walked into the medical room where the rest of the team was. Everyone on the team, including the back, shook his hand...
Mauran broke loose again ten plays later, as he went 40 more yards on a weak side buck before being hauled down on the two. On the next play as eight Yalies flattened Mauran, Dave Warden swept around end untouched for the marker. Rosenau added another point...
When the band struck up, strangely enough, the Marseillaise, out came several thousand red and white handkerchiefs, forming a huge fluttering "H" in the Harvard stands. Everyone was also supposed to have an individual megaphone at his side at all the time, and cheers in those days were not only shouted, but aimed as well...
...since local police have finally wised up and now place cordons of blucoats around the posts. There once was the time when you rolled up your sleeves in the final period if your team was losing and eyed the opposite stands eagerly. You can't see the other side now--fifty cops...
...Part III of the book, Professor Joughin traces the influence of the case on the literature of the time, giving a brief but wholly adequate comments on the many poems, novels, and plays which were concerned with the case. From beginning to end the Arts were entirely on the side of the defense, in general taking the view that two innocent and friendless men were being railroaded to the electric chair because their radical views conflicted with the conservative temper of the community. A notable exception to this rule was Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. As the dominant member...