Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Down in the Yale Bowl this afternoon Captain Dadmun and his men will struggle to wrest victory from the sullen bulldog, while in the stands the cohorts of the Crimson will cheer their efforts. At home in Cambridge supporters no less loyal will fervently beseech the gods for a Harvard victory. The sun has set in vivid crimson now for four successive years. May it be long before the cold blue shadows obscure our vision of victory...
That war is not only possible but even likely is obvious to any who have taken the trouble to study present conditions in the light of history: That Japan will ultimately try to wrest the Phillipines from us is generally conceded as highly probable by foreign diplomatists. All conditions warn us. But still, are we blind to the needs of our country, on unwilling to sacrifice a little of our time for what our forefathers gave their lives? Are the college men of this country,--those to whom this country has been most king, to brazenly jeopardize the future...
...more or less into contact with German officials. I regret that my personal observations as to what Germany wants are quite different from those of Mr. Henderson. My impression, gathered from contact with German officials has been that Germany has long been spoiling for a war wherein she might wrest the control of the seas from England and impose her "Kultur" upon the rest of the world, including the United States. I have found educated Germans speaking with the greatest levity of making war, and I was told by a German official, upon one occasion, that Germany had determined...
...merit rather than individual merit as is usually done in winter meets was approved by all the officers of the association as the best way to produce results at this time of the year. It is under such conditions that a team of average men in good condition will wrest a championship away from a team of one or two stars. It has been planned to charge no entry fee and to arrange the program in such a way that the contestants will be unable to compete in more than one or two events. There will be a dinner given...
...sweep" in the Yale race a week later is not only one of the greatest victories in the history of Harvard athletics, but is a feat unprecedented in the annals of cross-country running. Sure of its strength but not over-confident, the team which will today endeavor to wrest from Cornell the title which she has held ever since the Intercollegiate Cross-Country Run was inaugurated, is the strongest which has ever represented Harvard...