Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Never before in the history of the University have such throngs of men made use of the various facilities for recreation as this year. Although in the past no definite records of the attendance at all the gymnasiums have been kept, yet the arrangements of dove-tail schedules made necessary this fall indicate the pressure for space. One factor, however, there is this year which has never before existed and that is the Physical Training Department with compulsory physical exercise for Freshmen...
...Preparations for the big game are well under way, and the whole College is enthusiastically looking forward to a season which will avenge the defeat of 1916. In Captain Murray the team has chosen a good man, and it will follow him with a new determination to twist the tail of the bull-dog until he yelps...
With skates on his feet and a tail that twitches nervously, the Tiger at bay in Brooklyn awaits the attack of the University seven. Well may his tail twitch, too, for the veteran conquerors of the Blue plan to experiment in fancy knot tying with that caudal appendage, and to playfully add one more twist to that which the Bulldog gave it a short time...
...would see him coming, for instance, and just as he got in range, perhaps 400 yards, and above and behind me in good position for him, I would try to turn sharply under him and after he passed above make a renversement and be behind him and under his tail. A machine cannot see another if it be directly below him, while the one below can easily watch the one above. Once behind the other fellow, you try to follow him in all his turns. When you try to make quick turns and don't get them just right...
...fight this afternoon with a young French officer and managed to stay on his tail most of the time. He wasn't so good as some of the others. You do things you never could imagine and go tumbling about without knowing much of the time where the earth is at all. Two fellows who are pretty good will usually get started by approaching each other in opposite directions and as they pass try to get on each other's tail. They may go round and round for ten turns like a cat chasing its tail till...