Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...short rest, and play began again. New York changed the tactics again and started on the attack. Time was getting short. Brown threw for goal, but Harvard's man stopped it with his knees. Fast and furious the game was played. The ball went out of bounds. In an instant it was in, Brown got it and threw New York's third goal. Time, 6 minutes; no 'rahs; score tied...
...first half the score stood 8 to 0. in favor of the CRIMSON. The half was marked by long rushes by the CRIMSON and close blocking by the Bacteria rush-line. A few sparring contests lent spectacular interest to the game. In the second half the struggle was furious. Several times the ball was brought down to the goal of the CRIMSON and once a high throw aided by the strong wind blowing resulted in a safety touch-back for the CRIMSON. As the minutes passed the game seemed already decided for every effort of the Bacterias to score proved...
Yesterday morning a furious runaway horse was stopped on Harvard Street by the courage of a certain member of '86. The heart-felt thanks of the owner rewarded the brave student...
...portion of the race are simple, ignorant folk, under the absolute domination of their rulers, - the priests; were they to attend any colleges in America they would probably go to the great Roman Catholic colleges, like Notre Dame, and Seton Hall; the English Canadians, on the other hand, are furious loyalists, affect a lofty scorn for the "States," and send their boys when they can afford it, to the great English universities. I think if the number of Canadians on the rolls at Cambridge and Oxford were noted, they would be found to equal fully the number of Californians...
...game. Among the ranks of the "Old Etonians," and of other Clubs similarly constituted, may be seen players who get over the ground with an agility, and charge their opponents with a hardihood, perfectly astounding for their years. To watch some of these veterans limping out of a furious "maul," or rolling on the muddy turf, would give a stranger, no doubt, a high opinion of the vivacity and pluck of our countrymen ; but to one of philosophical bent-such a one, for example, as Mr. Max O'Rell (who has indeed branded the game as "fit only for savages...