Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When we planned and struggled to stem the tide...
...without a single defeat against them and with their goal line crossed only once, Capt. Murray and his men outgeneraled and outfought the Bulldog who generalship and fighting counted. The slightest failure in any one of a half-dozen situations fully to grasp Harvard's opportunities ties or to stem the tide of the Eli attack would have turned victory in defeat. But in the crucial moments the University did not crash...
...expect, he is looked upon as a pessimist. If he protests against heavy expenditures for displays of an emotional sort, he is fortunate if he is not considered openly unpatriotic. Even those who have been to France and have seen war stripped of its garnishings, ineffectually try to stem the tide of current opinion. Nothing but time and suffering can do it, and how intensely painful the realization is going to be! We will find that, though we are sending to France armies of the finest raw material, there are others of just as good courage that will struggle with...
...credit; Captain Morgan and Condon each shot the puck past Louderback twice, and Baker, Thacher, Townsend and W. Rice scored one goal apiece. Rice's goal was made against Wylde after the latter had displaced Loude-back, but the latter, although he made several fine stops, could not stem the steady rush of the University players which swept the Freshman defence off their feet...