Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first match in an international series; after the second match the team that had scored the greatest total number of goals would be declared the winner. The U. S. women won the first match by a score of 5-2. Many spectators started to watch them but a cold wind blew most of them away; only a handful remained at the end to watch Dorothy Hunt-Hogan, the Canadian No. 1, topple off her pony and clamber back on again to finish the match...
There were about 20,000 people in the quiet stands; a cold rain dripped from the smutty sky and early autumn mist closed in around Meadow Brook. Airplanes rose suddenly from invisible fields and flew low across the enormous billiard table of turf; a Scoreboard said "Argentine-6; U. S.-6." The gong sounded for the eighth chukker and two polo teams cantered in from the northeast corner of the field...
Pricked is another bubble that the years had ballooned into a ripe and respected size. The legend surrounding Radcliffe's ivory towera and its bespectacled inmates must yield to the pressure of figures, cold, exact figures...
Naturally, under these conditions, a simple announcement of President Ferrand of Connell, that lack of sleep is one of the growing evils of the American undergraduate, met with but a cold reception. Yet there is evidence in plenty to support his statement. Anyone who has ever had a nine o'clock class is familiar with the sleeping six and the half dozen late. The well lighted windows of the Business School, and even of the Freshman Halls, tell to any late traveller by the Charles a story sufficiently convincing. Perhaps Dr. Ferrand did not refer to this sort of undergraduate...
Everyone knows about Vincent Richards, who used to beat Tilden more often than anyone else till he became one of Cold Cash Pyle's pro's. Nobody, in the U. S. at least, seemed to know much about Karel Kozeluh. Admitted by most experts who have seen him play to be the greatest tennis player in the world, Karel Kozeluh prefers the game of hockey at which he is almost equally expert. He is a member of a family famous in Prague for their sporting activities; when 12, he had saved up enough money which he made from...