Word: tides
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale in Yule-Tide Invasion of Canada...
When we planned and struggled to stem the tide...
...single defeat against them and with their goal line crossed only once, Capt. Murray and his men outgeneraled and outfought the Bulldog who generalship and fighting counted. The slightest failure in any one of a half-dozen situations fully to grasp Harvard's opportunities ties or to stem the tide of the Eli attack would have turned victory in defeat. But in the crucial moments the University did not crash...
...third of the capital of the country is refusing to allow its employees to form into unions. With equal temerity King Canute once tried to stop the rising tide...
...Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 15.--Under conditions which were very much the same for both crews, the University and Yale eights had time trials yesterday, the former covering the four mile course in 21 minutes and 34 seconds, the latter in 21 minutes and 13 seconds. The tide favored both boats, but was slightly stronger when the Eli crew went over the course. While the Harvard time was rather disappointing, nothing absolutely definite can be done in the way of comparing the chances of the two crews from the time made in the trials, owing the changes which...