Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson Unfamiliar With Small Rink...
Despite the home team's versatile attack and their unfamiliar big court, Coach Chase's players had little the worse of the argument in the first half, the period ending with the score...
...Dago is Italian, a Grand Duke Russian, a Sheik Arabic, a waiter French. It keeps you from losing sight of the environment in which the events narrated take place. But an even more fundamental reason is that we like to be able to convince ourselves of familiarity with the unfamiliar. The French phrase becomes a mark of confidence in us and in the extent of our linguistics?particularly if it is discreetly translated in the next sentence. It is just one more of those little touches that make us feel fifty per cent cleverer than anyone else thinks...
Dixon's overwhelming defeat of Powers, one of the high ranking men in the State was something of a surprise. Handicapped as he was by an unfamiliar court, it is doubtful if the B. A. A. representative could at any time have defeated the University Captain in the form he flashed today. Powers never knew what to expect as the dazzling succession of hard-hit smashes, drop volleys, and accurate corner shots won point after point for Dixon...
...Debevoise '26, playing No. 2, has suffered from inexperience, and an inability to cope with a hard hitting game in unfamiliar courts. He should find his real form in next Saturday's match. Carroll Harrington '24, No. 3, has been the most erratic player on the team this year. His fine playing in the Newton match, however, shows that he is regaining that form and steadiness which made him a valuable member of last year's team...