Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Four hundred and one men enlisted in the Spanish war, the largest number of whom were in the First Volunteer Cavalry, the "Rough Riders." The men were in the fiercest fighting, and bore the most desperate hardship in the Santiago campaign. Two prominent graduates of Harvard, Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt, won their promotions in this campaign...
Students who witnessed the battle said the fighting was marked by the fiercest scrimmage they had ever seen, but the fatality and large number of accidents were due to the slippery field, they declared. About 400 freshmen and 200 sophomores took part in the battle...
...dispatch to the CRIMSON from the Cornell Sun states that the team has been put through an especially rigorous drill this week. Secret practices in the baseball cage have been accompanied by the fastest and fiercest scrimmages which the Red and White squad has seen this year. During the play, Captain Barrett has been averaging over 50 yards in his punting, and on one occasion got off a kick that travelled 77 yards. The team had one last hard scrimmage yesterday before leaving, but it is thought that the men will spend today resting at the Hotel Lenox...
...practice of the University football team during the past two days has undoubtedly consisted of the hardest work undergone this year. The usual Monday let-up was passed by, and that afternoon and yesterday morning saw the fiercest scrimmaging the squad...
...chances, he has made the most of them, as was well demonstrated at West Point where he scored the only touchdown. In breaking through the line he is irresistible and has several times prevented kicks which might have scored. Bush, who is Withington's substitute, is one of the fiercest tacklers on the team and probably the best of the many line substitutes...