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Word: tomahawks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four Dartmouth victories have been scored in the past two years, and in the three games that have been played between the two Universities since the resumption of play after the ten year split that began in 1912, the Crimson can boast but one green scalp, that from the tomahawk of Owen in 1922. Both verdicts since then have gone to the invaders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Has Won 24 Out of 30 Games in Battles With Indians Since 1884 | 10/24/1925 | See Source »

Should any member of a tribe fall by the wayside through lack of endurance his own fellow tribesmen would scalp him for bringing disgrace to them by his weakness. Many times these so called lacrosse games ended up with the use of the bow and arrow or tomahawk, especially when they were closely contested. In some cases, it is said, the head of a white man was used as the ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LYDECKER TELLS HISTORY OF LACROSSE FROM TIME OF INDIAN TO PRESENT DAY | 5/23/1925 | See Source »

...they not to be included in the category of men who are sponsors of a twentieth century civilization? Or will my colleague interpose that we have such a phrase for mere aesthetic embellishment? And again, if by Americans he means the real indigenous Americans, the Indians, who wielded the tomahawk with a flendish delight, prancing about their scalpless victims about to be roasted at the stake, then we concur in chorus that "the greater their anguish the greater their pleasure"; but that age has passed. If men progress mentally, culturally, and spiritually, then I am convinced we have left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Civis Americanus Sum." | 1/16/1920 | See Source »

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