Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There seems to be something about education in an athlete that irks a dyed-in-the-wool fan. Gene Tunney found this out, and it is this jealousy, perhaps, of men who have acquired the stamp of education conferred by a college degree that has brought many a heavyweight champion of the Intercollegiate Boxing Association to grief in the "racket" of professional boxing...
...with a white canvas jacket over the jersey, and knee breeches that once had been white. There were no pads or head gears or similar protection, for mass play had not been invented. A few of the Harvard men went bareheaded while others wore crimson football caps of soft wool without visors; the Yale team wore long blue caps knit like a stocking with a blue tassel...
Near present Hebron, the American School of Archaeology has found Kirjath Sepher, which the Israelites captured in the time of Joshua. Interesting are the remains of a wool-dyeing factory, a small household altar of Samuel's time...
That last sentence would need explaining, because the Underwood bill placed on the free list a lot of things that farmers raise, viz. bacon, hams, hogs, wool, lambs, sheep, corn, wheat, potatoes, rye, milk, cattle...
Battening once more on the pre-whistle furor that invades dyed-in-the-wool grid iron followers on the occasion of every great game, ticket forgers have foisted off literal scores of false admission pasteboards on the West Point and Harvard public this week-end. It is not a new crime. It is not one that can be prevented. The law guardians may possibly overtake and trump two knaves, no more...