Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drill, and then took part in a long signal practice. Lane and MacPhail, powerful plunging backs, showed considerable speed, and Dooley was successful in completing forward passes. Coach Smith has been drilling a team on Harvard plays, and these will probably be used against the University team in a stiff scrimmage tomorrow
...University squad after two stiff evening assignments is crippled some-what by injuries to Coady, Daley, Miller, and French, but is otherwise in a fit and aggressive mood. Miller and French, two first-string backs are being saved for the Dartmouth clash and Coach Horween has decided not to risk either of them in today's encounter. The Crimson captain, however, has nearly recovered from his leg injury, and will see service if needed. Daley, the veteran guard who has been under observation for appendicitis may also get into the play for a time, when the two oldest colleges...
...seems there were so many voices, some good, some bad, some Harvard--see September Lampoon--when the Repertory Theatre Company opened its eleventh season last Monday night with the usual number of congratulatory telegrams and stiff shirts present. The trick was to distinguish the "voice crying in the wilderness" from the ordinary run of moans and groans, and that takes practice. It was quite a game and went on for seven periods, or episodes, as they are designated in the theatre rule book. The audience fought gamely but after all, seven is several too many...
...then out again in frightened flutter. Some of the pigeons took refuge off in Trafalgar Square, which was singularly empty that afternoon. All of London seemed to have converged upon the Westminister bridgeheads to watch what some old birds eyed knowingly- one of those loud-droning big creatures with stiff wings that used to fly over Big Ben so often ten years ago. They saw this creature circle Parliament twice, then drive the greedy gulls out of the Thames as it descended with a last roar, a silent glide to the water...
...Hill '30, who is expected to give the other seeded players stiff competition, has not yet played his third round match...