Word: rubbering
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...would scarcely fill a section in the Stadium today. Still, it was a slashing, spirited contest, especially after the Yale players unfamiliar with Harvard rules, grasped the idea of how to tackle. A particularly desperate scrimmage in the third quarter flattened even the ball into a disk of limp rubber. The best of traditions was established by the presence among the spectators of numerous ladies seated decorously in their carriages. Harvard drew first blood, setting subsequent University teams a worthy example by kicking four goals while Yale failed to score...
...hulls of ships. Returning to Yucatan, he gauged the point on the sacred well's brink whence the victims were probably thrown. He hurled in logs of human weight to approximate the drowning spot. He brought in a dredge, and after removing tons of mud put on his rubber armor and steel helmet, dropped down and recovered 90 skeletons and a priceless collection of jade and golden images, now on view at the Peabody museum. The Carnegie Foundation will carry on his work...
...again scheduled, but in the past war period it has been with increasing difficulty that the University has held its own. In the last six meetings, the two elevens have split even, each having a string of three successive wins to its credit. Saturday's meeting thus becomes the rubber match for the post war series...
...headed "Fergusons Encourage Crime." In that article I discussed the pardon record of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, and in connection with such discussion I referred to Jim Ferguson in the following language: "All Texans are sorry for the woman that must bear his practice of using her as a rubber stamp that he may be rehabilitated through the criminal element of the state. Jim Ferguson knows that he can never be elected to office again and that two years will close the political career of Mrs. Ferguson, and he is doubtless 'making hay while the sun shines...
...baseball among friends. There were no professional coaches to curse into you the seriousness of your effort, nor vast galleries of rooting college mates and fair hero worshipers to wipe out your sense of values. Their absence was reflected in the names of the various nines--Dew Drops, Rubber Neeks, Jumbos, Lobsters, Boiler Makers, Minced Chickens, Fussers, Rounders, High Balls, Wash Bottles, Dropped Eggs, etc., etc. It is hard to be a hero with such a name across your chest...