Word: tie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tie...
...Striped Tie on that fellow. Don't look Now. He Knows we are talking about him. He Always knows when people are talking about him. That tie Means something. All ties like that Mean something. No, I do Not know what that Means. But it shows he has Won something, or been Elected to something, or Something like that A man with a tie like that is always a Marked Man. The only man More Marked, so far as I know, is a man with a Noose about his neck...
...equipped to champion, in a leveling age, the traditions of an imperious past. The Boston murals all treat classic subjects: Chiron teaching a very delicate Achilles how to handle a bow; Atlas stooping among the golden girls of the Hesperides; Hercules, with a billet the size of a railroad tie in his fist, fencing with the Hydra's ducking heads...
...Edwards of Notre Dame kicked the ball down a marshy field, Captain Gray of Penn State booted it back, and so for the rest of the afternoon they matched their legs while their elevens seesawed to a scoreless tie...
Captain French's men are not only undefeated, but have been scored on only once this season. The season started with a scoreless tie at Andover, but since that time 1929 has taken the measure of Exeter, 15 to 0, Worcester Academy, 25 to 6, and Cushing Academy, 35 to 0. With each game the Crimson team has increased in strength and it should be at the poak of its power this afternoon...