Word: sodden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lehigh students are making an effort to have their athletic grounds sodden...
Brutal, gashed, and swollen faces; wide gaping mouths, which opened for the last time to utter the death-shriek, and are now fixed forever in rigid agony; jagged, discolored teeth, sunken cheeks, knitted brows, dead, sodden eyes, awful contortions, ghastly smiles, hideous leers, faces of men and faces of women, faces of the young and faces of the old, faces which reek with the slime of years of vice and misery and despair; faces which Dante, groping among the damned, might have dragged from hideous, steaming depths of Lethean mud, and flung forth to front the unwilling...
...walk across the new athletic grounds. The sod is in anything but a flourishing condition, and can ill afford to bear the wear and tear which the continual tramping of men will bring upon it. Especially do these remarks apply to the baseball field which has recently been sodden at the expense of the nine, and which must receive special care if any of the championship games are to be played upon it. Although the sign requesting all passers-by to take the east side of Holmes Field, may not convey any very exact information to strangers at Harvard...