Word: vernally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Henry Lamar had hoped to have scheduled games such as the team played last year with Tufts or other colleges that were stressing spring football. The abandoning of vernal football by many of the local colleges has made it impossible for actual games to be scheduled...
...first of these vernal mistakes is a rather loose-knit little clique instigated by someone known only to close subordinates as "The Howl." To everybody else "The Howl" looks like a loose-knit booby wearing a Win With Willkie mask and carrying a machete (a loose-knit pocket knife) and scaring the devil out of a couple of characters he found playing pinball in the lower reaches of J entry (left stairway...
...impulse from a vernal wood...
...Department idea, has struck sparks with the armed forces abroad. To date, an Alaskan private, lonesome for the songbirds which woke him mornings back home in Indiana, has heard his birds; another soldier overseas has heard the voice of his favorite cocker spaniel; bleary Robert Benchley has given a vernal lecture for sailors on The Facts of Life (e.g., "Fish are a very poor example of the Facts of Life . . . because they work under water and . . . don't know anything...
This sudden arrival of the vernal season, so far in advance of its usual late date, caught the boat house partially unprepared, and there were no launches ready when Bolles sent his two shells out on the chilly water. The eights, stroked by Dave Noyes and Bryce Seligman, restricted themselves to working out in the three-eighths mile space between Newell and the Cambridge Boat Club...