Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...usual methods known to collegians, seems the worst possible taste. While every effort is being made at present to illuminate the objectionable professional taint from college athletics, for Pennsylvania to make a move in the opposite direction is a blot on her reputation which she should hasten to wipe out by withdrawing her manifesto...
...score by points count up 20 to 0 in favor of Andover. This defeat seems to dispirit the freshmen rather than to urge them to renewed effort. It is to be hoped that they will take this rebuke in the right light and go to work determined to wipe out the defeat in a victory over Yale. The team is as good as it was a day or two ago and no one need feel discouraged or withold their support from the eleven just because they have persisted in over-rating its strength. Some time will elapse before the decisive...
...nine were near-sighted, the fielders used crutches, and the rest had never seen a first base, we should still say : "Our victorious athletes left last night to wipe up Harvard, on her own grounds, this afternoon. There will be need of a crowd to spur them on, the Yale nine will not be allowed more than six runs apiece, and we long for a foeman worthy our steel." etc. There's nothing like "hoping for the best" and scattering it all around for the benefit of the disheartened. - [Yale Courant...
...must be done by diet and exercise, for all the sweating in the world would not take off fat. The use of alcohol was condemned, and by its use Dr. Sargent said men had put a stigma on athletics which it would take centuries to wipe out. In the New England climate he thought a little lager beer was good, and would do far less hurt than coffee, but notwithstanding there was a conflict of opinion as to the use of tobacco, he opposed its use in any form, believing it far more injurious than beneficial...
...Hawthorne's "Marble Faun," which she had herself illustrated. "Yes," said I, "Rome is a great financial and commercial metropolis, and is also the city of the soul. Miss Wiggleson, are you intense?" I saw she was affected, for she drew out her pocket-handkerchief, and then, ashamed to wipe away the tear that glistened in her eye, she began to dust a volume. I waxed eloquent. "Speaking of antiquities, Miss Wiggleson, have you ever heard the story about George Washington?" A shade passed over her face. Perhaps she doesn't like anecdotes, thought I. "About the pear-tree?" said...