Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Billy Thaw and Rockwell came over me, 3,700 metres they must have been; I tried to follow them but found it difficult. Up by A-- I recrossed the lines, taking a look at T-- and returned over M--. I met the same reception, but their aim was wild, two or three hundred metres above, and a scattering way under me. Nary a Boche sailing over that misty...
...best-known writers in English literature, like O. Henry, have been forced by circumstances to discover and improve their talents. Daniel Defoe developed his literary style and gathered the material for "Jonathan Wild," "Captain Avery" and other stories of criminal life while confined in a London prison. John Bunyan, the wandering preacher, became John Bunyan, the author of "Pilgrim's Progress" during his imprisonment in Bedford jail. It is possible that neither of these men would have achieved the fame he now enjoys had it not been for the time to think that was imposed upon...
Captain Dadmun then kicked off and Cornell began a rush down the field which the University was unable to stop, and which ended only when Shiverick's try at a field goal went wild. An exchange of punts together with Benedict's fumble which Wheeler recovered gave the University the ball, and Horween got off his best punt of the day, which went 65 yards to the Ithacans five-yard line. Robinson ran Shiverick's subsequent punt to the 30-yard line, and from there made an unsuccessful attempt at a field goal. Cornell's other flash of power...
...back 25 yards, team A was dismissed to run through signals, and team B took its place. The second team was unable to gain at first, and it was team B's ball when M. H. Gersum- ky '17's try at a pass went wild. The University then rushed the ball down the field and scored a touchdown when W. Willcox '17 crossed the second's goal line. The University took the ball on its 40-yard line and scored again soon afterwards, when R. H. Hitchcock '19 went over, after a long run by H. W. Minot...
...subordinated to a less intellectual interest in the successful issue of the annual football game with Yale. In many ways this attitude is unfortunate. Chess was in vogue among the polite countiers of Kubla Khan when the game of football was played with a rough stone, kicked about the wild British moors by half-naked tribesmen. And chess will remain a noble game when the last goal post has rotted and the last pigskin has burst. To make chess less than football is to make the immortal dependent on the strictly finite. Chess is the mother of all games...