Word: slating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock today for Exeter, where they will clash with the Academy skaters on the outdoor rink at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The powerful first year hockey squad is determined to equal the accomplishments of the 1927 and 1928 skaters by ending the season with a clean slate. The Freshman teams have now run their record of wins in the last three years up to 24. Of these the 1927 six won 12 and the last year's Freshmen, eight. Last year the Crimson skaters were tied once by Milton Academy, but the 1929 squad wiped out the memory...
From the perfect condition of the block and the intact slate of the microscopically thin sheets of plaster of paris between them it is certain that the tomb was never broken into. Any other entrance into such a well-like structure is out of the question. For weeks the work went on of the question. For weeks the work went on of the clearing of the ponderous limestone blocks. The shaft grew deeper and deeper. All records for depth were broken. Temporary quarters for the workers were built the hole and barbed wire was put up to keep off prying...
...gold hammer (TIME, Jan. 5). Although strong enough to give a stalwart blow (until immured in the Vatican by papal policy since his election in 1922, he led an active, energetic life; was even a famed mountain climber), he contented himself then with only cracking symbolically a piece of slate in the Door. Sampietrini finished the work of removal...
Dartmouth kept its slate clean by the efforts of two linesmen who blocked two kicks and scored two touchdowns to beat Brown...
Hitherto undefeated, Cushing came to Cambridge with high hopes of breaking the Freshman eleven's clean slate. Coach Campbell's men, however, ran roughshod over the schoolboys and piled up the largest total they have made in four games...