Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Emphasis, it would seem, may thus be centered upon just what the desire of our collegiate authorities is: do they wish their representative teams to play the game up to the hilt, or to play bumble puppy? There was a time when Harvard's elevens and crews under nondescript coaching systems lost to Yale with doleful frequency. Later, some serious attention was devoted to the conduct of athletics at Cambridge with a resultant systemization and rigidity of control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride...
...such tricks are of the fairness of the red Indian, to whom treachery was often synonomous with honor. Conflict seems to be losing even that poor show of mercy which has been practised in other less bitter wars. "War to the knife, and the knife to the hilt...
...Fogg than in the famous equestrian Prado picture, the likeness between the two is striking. In the picture under discussion, the pose and expression are dignified and impressive. The massive black robed figure stands out against a perfectly painted gray background. The characteristic left hand rests on the hilt of the sword and the right grasps a table covered with red velvet. The gold chain...