Word: underhandedly
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...came from a Western Maryland team that had won 27 consecutive games to a Harvard team that had won 27 consecutive games to a Harvard team that had won nothing anybody could remember for three years, and the ugly word was out that Harvard was going to indulge in underhand player solicitations. Harlow did not proselytize, solicit, or finagle. "I wanted to be associated with a decent institution before I die," he has since said. And the great triumph of his tenure at Harvard--the longest in the college's football history--is that he was able to equate...
...weighing 38 Ibs. Almost every morning for 4½ years, Keeper Eddie Robinson hitched Bushman to a 75-ft. rope and took him out for a romp on the monkey-house lawn. Man and beast wrestled, ran races, played football. Bushman learned how to heave a neat underhand pass, run with the ball, dodge tacklers. He was always gentle and obedient...
...members, Captain Cunningham-Reid blockaded Commander Locker-Lampson against the wall and shouted: "I want to know whether or not you are going to continue making these personal attacks on me. I have no objection to your attacking in the ordinary Parliamentary way, but I object to these dirty underhand personalities...
...sponsored by breweries, taverns, bakeries, big industries and little individuals with a yen to see their names sprawled across the satin backs or sweatered fronts of cavorting U.S. tomboys. On Softball's miniature diamond (bases are 60 ft. apart instead of 90) and aided by Softball's underhand pitching, girls can pitch, bat, field grounders, otherwise perform like a reasonable facsimile of the male...
Lawn tennis, invented in England only two years before by a Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, was then played on an hourglass-shaped court with a sagging net and thick-framed rackets of almost as many shapes and sizes as there were players. Players served underhand, sedately lobbed the ball back & forth. In England, it was considered unsporting to hit a ball beyond an opponent's reach. But Dick Sears developed what he called "a mild form of volleying," took delight in tapping the ball "first to one side and then to the other, running my opponent all over...