Word: tiff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard's team was not strong. Princeton defeated Harvard 36 tiff 6; Yale beat Harvard 48 to 0. The Yale Princeton game was stopped by darkness. This deprived Yale of the championship not awarded...
...because the husband objects to such little attentions, he declares that the poor man, by such objection has used the wife "shockingly ill," and therefore, she is freed from her vows. But unfortunately, true love never runs smooth, even with another man's wife, and Boswell soon had a tiff with his mistress. Their reconciliation he describes as follows: "I held her dear hand; her eyes were full of passion; I took her in my arms; I told her what made me miserable; she was pleased to find it was no worse. We renewed our fondness." Supporting somebody else...
...unfortunate tiff between the two principal university teams, the nine and the crew, has disclosed one of the ways in which student money is wasted under the guise of providing for the crew. It was announced some months ago that the nine were to change their uniform during the coming spring, crimson and black striped blazers and caps being substituted for the solemn gray ones of yore. The nine were about to order these, when in step the crew men and say that the striped blazers are their particular property, and request that the nine shall not wear them...