Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There can't be a shadow of doubt that some of the American football battles in France, waged by men at the top of condition and aglow with victory over the world's enemy, were the hardest-fought pigskin combats in which Americans had had ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng...
...Burgess expressed himself as satisfied with the early season games. "The Andover and Springfield games gave me an idea of the material I had and showed me what the players could do in a real game. The games we played on our trip were by far the hardest and the team played finely at a great disadvantage...
With Dartmouth encouraged by its unexpected draw with Colgate, and Pennsylvania jolted out of its overconfidence, the contest bids fair to be one of the hardest fought staged this year...
...practice on Tuesday was one of the hardest of the year for the Princeton team and was spent in perfecting new plays and rehearsing old ones. Davis, who was regular end on the Freshman team of 1917, replaced Bigler...
...feature of every properly appointed household--the Cosmopolitan. From the delicate and tactful "take-off" on the late lamented Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the masterpiece of cartoonist art entitled "Woodruina" Lampy scores a decisive victory in the realm of humor. Of all forms of wit burlesque is perhaps the hardest to carry off. Nine times out of ten it falls flat simply because it is overdone. But the editors of the Lampoon knew when to stop, and therein lies their virtue. We understand that this number of the Lampoon is expected to have the greatest sale on record...