Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Juniors won the class basketball championship last night by defeating the Sophomores in a spectacular match by a score...
...offense, in dash and reliability of his defensive play, and in the unconquerable spirit with which he led his team. He gained Harvard's only first down in the first half practically unaided, and made the most and longest gains in the second. His brilliant tackles were the most spectacular plays of the game and time after time stopped Yale's attacks on all parts of the Harvard line. Mills, too, played a brilliant game. His tackling in the open and his work in the secondary defense left little to be desired. Sperry had few chances to carry the ball...
...University by defeating A. Fox 2L. and F. W. Cole 1L., 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3. The playing of both teams was remarkably good considering the strong wind which blew across the court. Throughout the match the rallies were unusually long and spectacular, and both teams lobbed continually and played at the net at every opening. With the sets two all, Larned Sulloway braced and by steady net play won the final...
...hard and fast game marked by several spectacular plays, the University eleven defeated the Carlisle Indian School team in the Stadium Saturday afternoon by the score...
...into consecutive or continuous vocal bands, is only one illustration of the national tendency to do nothing by halves, which has resulted in many highly organized enterprises in business, politics and education. This ingenious mechanism of special cheering-sections, including elaborate rehearsals of songs and cries, appeals to the spectacular instinct in us and contributes to the unthinking enjoyment of the general audience. The objectionable features are a lack of spontaneity, the perfunctory punctuation of proceedings on the field by mechanical manifestations of approval or disapproval, and the risk that occasionally such well-meaning hordes of heelers, with their hectic...