Word: worst
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Carlisle excelled Harvard in offense and in tackling. Their trick plays were run off with remarkable smoothness, and they were used at the times when they could do the most effective work. Their tackling was fast, the runners being usually downed for a loss, while Harvard did the worst tackling of the season. Roberts was continually allowed to make long runs in the open field simply through the slowness of the Harvard team in getting down under punts. Harvard's slowness also lost many chances to get the ball on fumbles, and as jumbling was Carlisle's greatest weakness...
...football practice yesterday was the worst of the season. The first eleven was not only unable to score but could not even advance the ball further than the second team's thirty yard line. A forty-minute half was played without a stop, and most of the time the ball was in the first team's territory. The backs on the first eleven fumbled on almost every play, without even the excuse of a wet ball, and when they managed to hold it their running was so slow that they were tackled from behind. There was no interference, and several...
...when I have said this there still remains to be declared that other side of this whole matter toward which my text directs us. Money is a power. It may be used for the best purposes, and just as easily for the worst. It is like many other powers with which God has endowed us, that it may bring within our reach much that would otherwise be beyond it. It is unlike those other powers, in that, while they must oftenest earn their desires, it may as often buy them. In our time we are seeing as never before...
Many writers on trusts think that the worst evil connected with them is their introduction of corruption into politics, but it is questionable whether trusts do this any more than corporations such as gas companies and railroads. The real evil lies in the legislative system, certain members of which introduce bills injurious alike to the trusts and the public, simply for the purpose of being bought...
...thus suffer. Those who favor trusts say that by them inefficient men are kept from trying to do business independently, thus preventing a great economic evil, and that capable men are given good positions, good salaries, and good opportunities for developing their individual abilities under trusts. One of the worst evils of the trusts is the poor distribution of profits, giving little to the actual wage-earner and little to the stockholder...