Word: onslaught
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Tiger team, Trimble, by his forward passes, Strubing, by his marvelous field generalship, and Captain McGraw, as the mainstay of the Princeton line, were the outstanding stars. The University eleven was taken unaware by the furious initial onslaught of the Tigers and it took half the game before they could pull together and save themselves from defeat...
...United States had failed in resisting the encroachments of the German Empire upon its national rights, and it would have been a sand thing for humanity if through a narrow passion for the preservation of our own comfort we had let France fall to her destruction before the onslaught of the Hun. It would be an almost equally shameful thing if now, after all the sacrifices which have been made and which have been accentuated through lack of timely preparation, we should be lulled to sleep by sweet sounding pleas for universal peace through a League of Nations, seducing...
...Almost any night he may be found in the Living Room of the Union, filling the air with chords which are more noteworthy for their vigor than for their accuracy. When once he starts, all study is at an end; the fresh air is the only refuge from his onslaught. Such a man is cousin to the magazine mangler and blood brother of the noisy card player. Society, in college and out, tolerates such men because they apparently get some innocent happiness out of such a performance, but it wishes, nevertheless, that energy thus employed were expended at a more...
...time of the German onslaught, little accurate information could be obtained as to the amount of damage done to the valuable collection of rare old books and manuscripts kept there since the early part of the seventeenth century. Now, however, the details of this destruction are known, and the following article by the Bishop of Salford, which appeared a short time ago in the Manchester Guardian, gives an idea of the treasures which have been lost...
Yale was swept off her feet by Washington's fierce onslaught; Spiegel, Fleming, Young and Goodwin ripping great holes in the Yale line, skirting the ends, and using trick formations in which speed was the dominant factor, until Yale was practically demoralized. The game was one of the hardest fought that has ever taken place on the Yale field, both teams playing desperately. Yale's touchdown came in the first quarter as the result of a fumble on the forty-yard line, Legore soon scoring on a wide end run. However, the diversified attack of the opponents' backfield began...