Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...storm for two decades. The rules there adopted, although annually amended and extended, are nevertheless basically the rules that regulate play today, and the three great series of football contests thus founded--Harvard-Princeton, Princeton-Yale, and Harvard-Yale--today are the classic centres around which a hundred others thrive...
...Sothern's indomitable Petruchio is a match for twenty "lusty wenches" of Katharina's temper. From the time he swaggers into Padua with his father's fortune "happily to wine and thrive" to his winning of the wager at Lucentio's banquet, the audience feels the enthusiastic optimism and tough-skinned common sense of this wife tamer. He seems to enjoy so thoroughly his own sermons and bombasts that we can not but enjoy them with...
There is a rumor spreading around the university concerning a Harvard-Yale drill to take the place of the annual football game. This is an outgrowth of the old tradition that neither college can thrive without competing with the other. If the Elis were infantrymen we would gladly journey to New Haven and meet them in mortal combat, say with blank cartridges at fifty yards or even with wooden bayonets at a shorter distance. Yet with so many Yale men up here last summer, there has grown up a certain comradeship between the Universities. We thirst no longer for their...
...that perhaps Calgary might know even less than we about that bloody shade of crimson. So the editorial shears were applied to a banner and a sample was sent speeding on its way to the Canadian border. We hope that this new college of the Canadian Northwest will thrive under the color which it has chosen...