Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next break came early in the second half when Yale fumbled on its own 29-yard line, and Saltonstall fell on the pigskin and held it tight. Three yards were lost at the line on the next play, and then Chauncey fell back and shot the bullet-like pass to Saltonstall that carried the Harvard hopes. At full speed, stretching and straining, Saltonstall clutched the oval and dashed the ten yards to tie the count. Chauncey's drop-kick put Harvard ahead...
...social eminence; Willie Stevens, her grinning, giggling brother, who, older than she, looks upon her as a mother, wears heavy spectacles and a prodigious growth of mustache and hair, loves fire-engines and faced the accusation that he cut the throat of Mrs. Mills; Henry Stevens, another brother, tight-mouthed, an expert marksman, said to have fired the fatal shots. The curiosity existed also because of the ghastly disposition of the bodies, in the dismal field, under the spectre tree. Curiosity was awake because of the time that had elapsed since the murder-four years. Finally, curiosity was awake because...
...beauty', 'sharply silhouetted',--ad nauseam. But what, as Mr. Littel asks, is to be done? One must use words and phrases to "fill in" especially when one has little to say, And these old companions are "so often found at one's elbow when in a hurry or a tight place"; they are words which have niches and occasions rather than meanings". Mr. Littel is right; what would we do without them? They are not the private sins of book reviewers; they are common to persons of less fame. As long as man's literary style remains different from...
Lutherans. Dethroned by Presbyterians from their onetime third rank in number of U. S. Protestants, Lutherans plan to count hereafter communicants rather than confirmed members, as a fair and more impressive test of strength. Thus was cut a particularly tight Gordian knot, at the biennial convention of this faith, at Richmond...
Dartmouth had a hard fight on its hands to subdue a game team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute by 21 to 0. The southerners had a tight defense against forward passes, and the Big Green team found its aerial attack powerless. Straight drives through the line were used almost entirely in the Hanoverian offense, and a strong Virginia forward wall held this offense scoreless during the first and third periods...