Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year, Strickler and Kirby of Cornell, Burke of the University, Douglas of Yale, and Crawford of Lafayette are capable of furnishing stiff competition. There is almost certain to be a close battle between Burke and Douglas, for the Yale miler will come to Cambridge intent upon wiping out the sting of his defeat in the dual meet...
...fall, when Wally Trumbull expressed so cloquently his opinion on the undergraduate attitude. It will take a lot more spirit than has been shown in Cambridge since the war to drive the eleven through it stiff early season games to victory over Princeton and Yale, and to efface the sting of Jimmy Knox's "atrocious indifference...
...freedom of opinion, in war as in peace, more essentially for opinions that were in bad repute. I'wish I could remember who it was that warned the House of Commons against taking from the rattlesnake the rattle by which he gives warning of his approach and leaving the sting with which he kills. In suppressing opinion we take away the rattle. In failing to put into practice new institutions needed by the time we leave the sting. I inquire only if a man has fighting blood in that part of him which dwells among ideas. If so, shall...