Word: sop
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lose its sting. We can even laugh about it--especially the poor ignorant Westerner's difficulties with the Boston transit system, and the supposedly cutting remarks on Cambridge weather. Who, indeed, will go so far as to take exception at the latter? And, by the way, the supposed "sop" he throws out to our outraged feelings in his last paragraph is wholly unnecessary. Not only that, but it mars the delightful anathema which Mr. Carpenter has hurled...
...crop of all-America teams; from East and West, from real editors and near coaches, come suggestions for a combination of the mightiest of the mighty. Yet what do they all avail? The Western theorist's team is an all-Western team with a couple of easterners as a sop to eastern criticizers, and vice versa with the eastern theorist, only here it has been the custom to have at least a majority of players from the critic's own college. It is all so much wasted effort. Those who could do the best job keep quiet; conditions...