Word: downtrodden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, surprised everyone; the work of the runners showed the first effects of the new spirit which Coach Bingham was trying to give the team. The appearance which the team made on outsiders was shown by the statement appearing in one of the Boston papers the next day. "Poor, downtrodden Harvard," it said, "smashed every forecast by its fighting." The final score, Cornell 36 1-5, Dartmouth 35 2-5, Harvard 26 1-5, does not tell the whole story. A large number of the University's points were scored by men who, before the meet were regarded as "dark...
...robber traction barons." His platform smacks rather of Lenine than of an American statesman. At a time when the utmost should be done to conciliate capital and labor, he is making Immoderate and uncalled for attacks on established business organizations, and is fostering the discontent of the "downtrodden" workman, perverting it to his own advantage. While emptying the city treasury to pay his henchmen as $100 a day "experts" (the city is literally "broke" as a result), he blames the vacant coffers on the "rich tax-dodgers...