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Word: tartars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long 2 to 2 tie with Virginia. The Navy went down to a 4 to 3 defeat with Whitney twirling, but the game was won for Harvard at the expense of losing Wyche, who tore a ligament in his ankle and has been unavailable since. Mahan met a tartar at Washington, for Catholic University found him for 11 hits and won, 11 to 8, but Harrison came back the next day and pitched Mitchell's men to a 12 to 3 score at the expense of Johns Hopkins. This victory was the first of an unbroken string of twelve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 24 CONTESTS; 20 VICTORIES | 6/20/1916 | See Source »

...Cornell the University team met a tartar, the first encountered in the Stadium since 1911. An off-day for Captain Mahan, in itself a noteworthy epoch, coupled with the uncanny alertness of the Ithacans, was enough to give Cornell the 10 to 0 victory. A fumble at the very start, when the University men had not yet become accustomed to their opponents' style of play, gave Cornell the opportunity, and a short series of impressive smashes through a surprised Crim- son line gave the visitors a lead to which Shiverick later added with a pretty drop-kick. More fumbling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL TEAM HAS EXPERIENCED UNUSUALLY STRENUOUS SCHEDULE THIS YEAR | 11/20/1915 | See Source »

...fast and tricky open-field running. Whether or not the Harvard line will prove of sufficient strength to let King and Whitney get in some effective line-plunging, remains to be seen. Whichever way the situation is regarded, the University eleven is today in serious danger of meeting a tartar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN FACES SOUTHERNERS | 10/16/1915 | See Source »

...voyages of any great length. Its tribes show a curious combination of unity and variety. All have practically the same habits and customs, yet a native of one province is regarded as a foreigner by the inhabitants of another. After 690 B.C. China was gradually conquered by the Tartars, yet its civilization survived, so that within a few hundred years little trace of the Tartar Dy- nasty remained. This mixture of races is largely responsible for the present rebellion, as many of the people are not in sympathy with the Emperor, who is a Manchu Tartar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. SMITH'S FIRST LECTURE | 11/22/1911 | See Source »

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