Word: pluck
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Football Team has ended its work for the present season, and it may be justly praised for the honest and hard work which it has done. Although unsuccessful last Saturday, no one who saw the game can have failed to admire its pluck, and to recognize that the Team gave evidence of more faithful training than that of the past two years. The faults by which both the Princeton and Yale games were lost are such as may be corrected next year if attended to early in the season. The fact that the Yale men outweighed...
...pluck the golden apples from...
...undoubtedly make a better show, and the Seniors will hold their own, to say the least. The Sophomore crew contains some of the heaviest men, but this fact seems to work against them. They are too self-confident, relying rather upon their big men than upon hard muscle and pluck. The Freshman shell is not expected before the middle of May. This is unfortunate, and will handicap them in the race unless they can borrow a shell to practise...
That from the bell I e'en might pluck the tongue...
Till naught was left of him but pluck...