Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCabe's doughty squad experienced the same fate its big brothers were to suffer a few hours later. The locals held their own for the first quarter before Army's weight, depth, speed, and harder-hitting attack began to tell. It was the Crimson's first game; the Cadets had already beaten Fort Bragg and the Brown jayvees...
...exactly $18. With this he bought stationery and sent out letters to alumni. From the return of $300 he bought more stationery, sent out more letters and received enough money to buy pants for his bandsmen. Skinner also persuaded Mal Holmes to become conductor. Mal, and to hear members tell it, the pants, have been here ever since...
Dean Keppel went on to tell how each of the three fellows and succeeding fellows will follow an individual study program in one of the divisions of the University, especially the Business School, School of Public Administration, Department of Social Relations, and the Psychological Laboratories...
...Tetons of Wyoming, the Coast Range in Alaska, and the French Alps--a fact which might surprise some of the founders, who originally started the club as a bull-session society. This was in 1924, when Henry S. Hall, Jr. '19 returned from climbing near Banff and wanted to tell all his friends about it. So he invited them to his house and started talking, and called it the Harvard Mountaineering Club...
...novice attempting his first climb, HMC rule-makers have devised a devilish set of directives and frustrations. The experts tell you there's no holds barred, but the man who uses his knee in a climb is roundly booed from below, and the student who grabs the belaying rope for support is hold in disdain for the rest of his days. And you can't walk to a cliff by the back slope, you've got to scale the face. And you can't scale the face the easy way, you've got to climb the barest flattest, most unyielding...