Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then, while the happy bears frolicked among the blossoming foamcups, the Guzzlenots descended upon them. The Guzzlenots were dour fowls with shark teeth and clanked a mean blue beak. Their feet were wide and webbed, their necks rubbery and curving. They could not abide the Staggerbears with their crescent smile and ruddy, joyful blossoming noses, their boozy roars and capers...
...those seesaw affairs, with both teams fighting bitterly for an advantage, which finally came to Harvard through the talented toe of C. E. Brickley '15. Something in the way the Dartmouth forwards handled Brickley after one of his other attempts at a field goal which went wide of its mark, or a desire to put Cornell on the Crimson schedule led to a break in football relations between Harvard and Dartmouth following this game...
...Lane, the heavy punch in the Dartmouth attack. For two years as a regular on the Hanover eleven he has torn opposing defensive systems wide open and will be counted on to do much of the Dartmouth carrying today. He is also a sure man on the receiving end of a forward pass...
...second game, the recruit George William Pipgrass of New York outpitched the veteran Victor Aldridge of Pittsburgh by such a wide margin that Pittsburgh had little chance to win. Even here, however, Pittsburgh errors helped the Yankees in their two scoring innings, Outfielder Lloyd Waner duplicating his brother's first game error in the third inning, and Pitcher Aldridge making a wild pitch in the eighth. ¶ Errors apparently could have played no part in the outcome of the third game, which the Yankees won 8-1. Pitcher Herbert Pennock permitted no Pittsburgh player to reach first base until...
...Ballads For Sale," Miss Lowell's third posthumous volume of verse, contains a notable collection of poems, many of which have never before been printed, an outstanding feature of the volume is its wide range of both of mood and subject--from pictures of Italy to songs of the Pueblo Indians. The book as a whole, will take its place as one of the best examples of Miss Lowell's extraordinary variety, vitality, and poetic genius...