Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unto death. Each nine represented only itself and each player on it played only for the excitement and fun of baseball among friends. There were no professional coaches to curse into you the seriousness of your effort, nor vast galleries of rooting college mates and fair hero worshipers to wipe out your sense of values. Their absence was reflected in the names of the various nines--Dew Drops, Rubber Neeks, Jumbos, Lobsters, Boiler Makers, Minced Chickens, Fussers, Rounders, High Balls, Wash Bottles, Dropped Eggs, etc., etc. It is hard to be a hero with such a name across your chest...
...Checkers among the Early Christians, which would, by partaking at once of the nature of sport and learning, endanger neither. These courses it goes without saying, could only be given in the years following football victories. Defeat, particularly over a period of years, would diminish prod's or even wipe them out, and if the alumni stockholders in Pigskin Preferred passed a dividend or two. Discus it could no longer be thrown...
...vividly people the imaginations of sightseers; by a trade jealousy; a stolen opium shipment; in short, by almost any obscure betrayal of Oriental honor. Once begun, they are conducted on a system much re- sembling that which governs the game of chess. The purpose of each side is to wipe out the important leaders of the other. Hired assassins do the actual campaigning?tong gunmen who have originated many of the devices in favor with detective story writers. Their knives flicker in bad doorways. Their shapes are seen outlined against a gibbous moon, while they scurry over city roofs...
...cause for this (probably) unprecedented change of fortune was due, in large part, as prospective Premier Edgar N. Rhodes said, to "the people who have risen in their might to wipe out a government which through long tenure of office has regarded itself as all-powerful and in consequence has lost touch with the people...
This year, however, there is a notable change in the situation. Although Yale's crew is undoubtedly good, the University eight leaves for Red Top tomorrow full of confidence, determined to wipe out a long and unbroken series of defeats. With it go the prayers and hopes of all Harvard...