Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...University race crew "A" was never headed, although "B" was able to pull up even several times through momentary spurts. To R. Jenney '21, stroke of crew A, goes most of the credit for the race, which he never let slip out of his grasp for a minute...
...before pointing the finger of blame at the coach, the captain, the batteries, the infield or the outfield, the University must pull itself out of the state of lethargy into which it has dropped and consider. It is too easy to shriek accusations at the box score in the Sunday papers, and to criticize over a dinner table. Few men stop to think that it is the undergraduate body as a whole that is responsible for a team; if a better nine cannot be produced it is because the College has not the collective ability to furnish...
...sings a hackneyed metre, enchanting a passing moment. Mr. Ryan, on the contrary, strives to reveal the dramatic clash of will on will, of thought on thought. His verse is wrought carefully, studiously. If he were a violinist I should say of him that he doesn't pull a good long bow; he doesn't lift you on the line -- end -- stopped or run-on "The Other Man's Wife" is simpler than "The City of Dim Faces," and gains by its simplicity. The latter is, in form and substance, as hard to take up as mercury...
These words apply to the cases of many men in Harvard. They come here as strangers from an obscure school, in contrast with those who enter from the big preparatory schools, and make up their minds to be lonely. Because somebody doesn't pull them out of their solitary state, they conceive the University as composed of but two classes, snobs and grinds. They forget that the men who come out on top started, in many cases, on the same level as themselves. They become cynical and profess to believe that the ordinary undergraduate is not worth knowing, that...