Word: punk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amateur, became the subject of a typical controversy among U. S. coaches. Should he devote all his efforts to the swimming events or should he drop one event and play water polo? Said burly Coach William Bachrach of the water polo team: "Without Weissmuller the water polo team is punk; with him the team has a chance against any team, and what's the use of paying $15,000 to bring the water polo team here unless you give them a real chance for the championship!" Coach Bachrach won his point and Weissmuller was put on the water polo...
...dignity, if not culture.' I then signed the ordinance but oldtime Seattlites wondered what I would have done with documents giving other campworkers their vernacular titles, such as 'chokerman,' 'bucker,' 'king rider,' 'faller,' 'hocker,' 'teeter,' 'punk...
...avoid mistakes and bad guesses, it is fairly certain that the recent editorial would never have been written. Of course the CRIMSON had the second guess and, like the fellow in Haughton's book who sits complacently in the stands after a play has failed to work, yells "Punk Judgment...
...contributor in the communication printed below compares the CRIMSON's attitude on the question of the ticket allotment with that of the complacent football fan who yells, "Punk Judgment!" after a play has failed. He feels called upon to resist an implied attack on the Graduate Treasurer and remarks that, "we can safely trust even his snap guesses in preference to other people's well-laid plans." The writer reads into the CRIMSON's recent editorial insinuations of "graft" and concludes by putting a chip on the shoulder of the Athletic Association with a distinct invitation to the CRIMSON...
...over certain earlier numbers which unkind critics in these columns have seen fit to treat with contumely and disrespect. Nevertheless it reminds one, vaguely enough perhaps, of the little girl in the nursery rhyme, who when she was good was very, very good, and when she was had was--punk. It runs in streaks, like bacon or barber poles or layer cakes...