Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inning was the brightest spot for Colby and for a time it seemed as if they would score the first tally. Haines, the first hitter, drover out a clean single and was advanced to second on a walk. Later he got to third on a sacrifice hit, but air-tight fielding prevented him from scoring...
...boycott when the negotiations over Shantung began between Japan and the weak officials of Peking. Although the students were denied the use of the mails and of the telegraph for their movement, by actual walking delegates they covered the country in a summer's recess and set up a tight boycott which cost Japanese merchants four to five million dollars a day for a number of months and thus enabled China to win a victory against Japan without resort to arms, because they brought the merchant class of Japan in direct opposition to the militaristic aims of their own government...
...University five was never headed. Throughout the entire first period, Coach Wachter's men showed the better team play, leading at the close by a five-point margin. In spite of the fact that the floor was larger than the Crimson's court, the invaders managed to play a tight defensive game, holding the Elis to three field goals and one point from the foul line in this half...
Displaying a superior brand of play in every phase of the game, the University basketball five won from the Massachusetts Agricultural College team last night by a 33-20 count. In spite of the tight five-man-defence which the Aggies offered, the Crimson managed to break through repeatedly or, when unguarded, tally on long, mid-floor shots. The game was fast throughout and, in the middle of the second period both coaches put in fresh fives to relieve the first-string players for a few minutes...
...visitors' attack is built upon a speedy and aggressive offensive although in earlier games their passing has been rather erratic and unsteady. In their victory over M. I. T. the Aggies showed a clear superiority over the Engineers, and by tight defensive work won from Trinity by a 28-18 count...