Word: slating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton, so far undefeated, owes its clean slate principally to Slagle, whose kicking and passing turned away Amherst, Washington...
...only recently that the architects in charge of cloistering the Yard, feeling that some contrast to the brick red and slate gray of the new dormitories was necessary, inspected some eighteenth century prints of the Yard, now hanging in the President's office in University Hall and discovered that the tympanum of Holden and the clock on Massachusetts were there depicted as blue...
...what has happened to the nine since then. In 1920, first baseman Jones of the University clouted a home run which proved the only tally, and ever since that hit, Harvard has been waiting for a victory over the Purple in baseball. In 1922, Carroll almost marred his clean slate when he edged out a win after 15 innings of scintillating baseball, and again two years ago, he took two one-run decisions from Young, the University hurler...
...meet with the J. Sanford Saltus Club will be the fifth of the season for the University team for whom the record shows a clean slate of four victories. The team took two decisive wins from Bowdoin and Syracuse, just barely won over the Army 7-6, and defeated M. I. T. last week 10 to 3, thereby qualifying for the Intercollegiate Fencing Tournament which is to be held in New York on April 2 and 3. The J. Sanford Saltus Club, which is a branch club of the French Y. M. C. A. in New York, is regarded...
Again the medium set to work. He produced a great slate, 18 inches high and over two feet long. The children examined it; it was quite unwritten on. Carefully the medium wrapped it in a cloth. Teddy and Cornelius were made to hold it. Again the medium implored the spirits. The slate was unwrapped. It bore two portraits? one of the President, the other of Uncle Quentin, killed in France. Under the President's picture was an inscription saying that if he should ever come back, it would be through the medium of Houdini. Below was signed in unmistakable hand...