Word: withstanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoyed the exercise. This race of dilettantes is now extinct, and has given place to a more conscientious generation which realizes the true function of football in any well-conducted alma mater. For alma mater flourishes by victory on the gridiron, and droops after defeat. No alma mater can withstand prolonged unsuccess at football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance in classes on Egyptology, Cryptology and the Italian drama drops off. Scholarship standards quiver and collapse. Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar the dismal thunder of defeat...
Harvard men have a curious theory that loud and continual repetition of the name of their institution will excite their athletes to such a degree that nothing can withstand them. The Harvard cheer, therefore, consists of braying repetition of the word "Harvard," mixed with a stammer of rah-rahs. Wretched interference and a missed try for goal discredited cheer and theory in favor of a stout team from Holy Cross. Score: Holy Cross 7; Harvard...
Addie had already chosen, with all her young heart; she wore Jim's ring and thought about him every moment. Jim had to thunder at himself to withstand her and make her go to college...
Greater than his triumph was his faith. Lansdowne declared, not one, but many times, that dirigibles could be built to withstand any storm, that the Shenandoah was so built. But he told his wife-before his last trip that the one thing which could break the ship was the line-squall?the conflict of warm and cold shafts of air, pressing from below and above. He knew that such storms occurred near the locality where he was killed, for at Greenfield, Ohio, he was born 37 years...
Lightnin'. Until a month or two ago Lightnin was the most popular play ever displayed for U. S. theatre-goers. Depending on the durability of the story, the picturemakers stuck to it. Again the theory is proved that a good play does not necessarily withstand the canning process. Lightnin' is fairly amusing, fairly vibrant to the widely known heart strings. The performance of an unknown, Jay Hunt, in the Frank Bacon part counterfeits that characterization carefully...