Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...outgeneraled and outfought the Bulldog who generalship and fighting counted. The slightest failure in any one of a half-dozen situations fully to grasp Harvard's opportunities ties or to stem the tide of the Eli attack would have turned victory in defeat. But in the crucial moments the University did not crash...
...world is in flux. In this crucial hour--this plastic stage of civilization--we can mould America into a solid and enduring permanency of true character; or we can let it be misshapen and distorted until like some great evil full of ugliness it becomes "set" and adamantine for wrong...
...Fechheimer '19 won each of his three points from Frost at the crucial holes...
Derning, on the mound for Portland, was invincible with men on bases, and struck out 16 Crimson batters. The University nine was unable to make good use of its five hits and six passes by reason of poor base running and failure to hit in the crucial moment. Twice players were caught off base by the pitcher. Peirson, who, with Gammack formed the University battery, held Portland to four safeties and might have scored a shut-out except for poor support. Wolverton, who replaced Captain Gross at shortstop, played an excellent game in the infield, accepting six chances without error...
...twelve months hundreds of thousands of Americans have become security holders, many little realizing the significance of their changing attitude. They have become Liberty Bond holders, buyers of Thrift Stamps. Many have not known, do not yet know that that which they do for their country in its crucial hour is certain to create a new instinct that of a fixed habit of saving and sound investment...