Word: sweater
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like Jack Dempsey smashing away at the net with his jaw way out. And that I was pale with concentration. Perhaps I was foolish to change from driving to lobbing against Suzanne, but it seemed best at the time. She was like a silk whirlwind in a salmon pink sweater. She talked constantly, while I pressed my lips tight shut, like President Coolidge. Her drives and placements came my way every time. I tried to drive her back with lobs, but both she and the Baron slaughtered one after another. He hit so hard he bent his racket...
...singles against a little girl named Bendit (6-1, 6-0) and two in the mixed doubles. Jack Hilliard (British) was my partner. Quite attractive, but he wore ugly shoes. The reporters came up. I wouldn't let them photograph me because I had on my oldest sweater and I just told them the truth about it. "Gentlemen," I said, "don't take my photograph today. Wait until Wednesday. I am getting some new French dresses made and they will be delivered Wednesday. I want my California friends to see how good I look in French models...
...Minor 'H' shall be 4 3-4 inches in size and shall be a black 'H' with a white border on a red sweater...
...next step in the evolution of Harvard football sweater took place the following fall when Harvard, through the enterprise of Morton Prince '75, substituted magenta and white striped jerseys for the undershirts...
...some 25 years, beginning with 1879, canvas jackets were won over the jersey. Some of these jackets had the "H," others did not. Until 1892, the gridiron sweater, like that of the crew, was white with the "H," in crimson. In two, years, 1892 and 1893, the football sweater was crimson with the "H" in black, and thereafter the background was black and the "H' crimson as is now the case. In 1896, this last combination was confirmed by the Athletic Committee of the University...