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Word: tramp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Hostilities will be resumed on Soldiers Field this afternoon when Lampy's warriors will cross bats with the CRIMSON red-ink slingers in the 23th annual historic clash. In order to provide sufficient space for the thousands of spectators who will tramp across Anderson Bridge to witness the downfall of Trainer Ibis charges, the distance between bases has been materially shortened, and much heavy hitting is to be looked for. Realizing the chances they are taking, the Battalion of Death has volunteered to umpire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TERRIFIC BATTLING EXPECTED | 5/8/1918 | See Source »

Once more we tramp to Soldiers Field to see our idols of many a hard-fought game. It may be their last appearance till the end of the War, who knows? But, be that as it may, it will be a wonderful contest. So putting aside thoughts of recitations and war we can journey forth to the Stadium and see to a never-to-be-forgotten afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ARMY-NAVY GAME. | 11/3/1917 | See Source »

...shadow Huns have voices. Ghosts speak, but behind their words is neither substance nor reason, only terror and despair gasping a last few envenomed phrases, phrases lost in the great roar of the machinery they could not stop and the tramp, tramp, tramp of a million men. New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 10/6/1917 | See Source »

...Whittlesey's interesting "Travler," a tramp, seems also to have been drawn from life. At any rate, we seem to recognize the sort of road-side philosophy that he discourses, even if it is hard to reconcile ideas and vocabulary...

Author: By W. C. Greene ., | Title: Monthly Slender But Good | 10/18/1916 | See Source »

...tramp of a thousand men marching today in the Harvard Regiment answered many a challenge. Have college students, more and more favored by circumstance, become so lost in seeking personal comfort and private success that they have no time for unselfish service? The regiment's regular ranks and its well-ordered marching told of many hours devoted to drill in the midst of busy weeks in winter and spring. From the day of their enlistment to their final review this morning the men have worked conscientiously to serve not themselves but their country. Has Harvard's tradition of restraint, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGIMENT LAUDED IN EDITORIAL | 6/1/1916 | See Source »

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