Word: tilts
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While in college, Macaulay developed a strong taste for political debate, and he was never happier than when able to find some one willing to engage in a fair tilt-at words on current political questions...
Perry. Belmont, one of Harvard's favorite sons, has again been bearding a Congressional lion in his den. Very melodramatic accounts are given in the newspapers of a recent tilt between Mr. Belmont and A. S. Hewitt in the Foreign Affairs Committee room...
...such as must lower the intellectual and moral tone of their members, the careful maintenance of a high standard of membership by the influential fraternities, the better understanding of the fraternity system by its honest opponents, and finally the sheer exhaustion of those that heretofore have maintained a vigorous tilt at the windmill for exercise's sake, on finding that the windmill stands the attack much better than they...