Word: singular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singular coincidence, the last baseball victory over Dartmouth was scored by the last team that Coach Mitchell had charge of in Cambridge. During the season of 1916, Coach Mitchell, then assisting with the management of the Boston Braves, was persuaded to coach the University nine, and he directed it through a schedule of 28 games of which the Crimson...
...Britain's Walker Cup chances later on, for Tolley is the British team's captain. But then U. S. Captain Robert Gardner spent a morning "hitting the ball on the roof" (i. e., topping shots) and dishonors were even. As one despatch paraphrased it: "His driving was singular and putting plural...
...name of Yale has been put on the balance scales rather unfortunately, for the interpretation put upon the vote of the University should have emphasized that Yale 'but stooped to truth' as it exists throughout the colleges of the country. Yale is not singular in sentiment or demeanor and the testimony of the recent referendum should be taken as universal rather than unique...
...eventually become clubs of some sort or other. The gregarious instinct does not bow completely to indifference. And a collection of people interested in a critical appreciation of the theatre becomes a Theatre Goers' Club and loses itself in refreshments and parliamentary law. So the Debating Union is not singular in becoming extinct as a factor in University affairs while it strives to furnish the college litterateurs with a raison de parler...
...probably at least as good as yours. Here it is: "Prince Otto von Bismarck at 28 years of age is the leader of the Nationalist Party in the German Parliament, or Reichstag, one of the leading parties in point of numbers in Germany. . . . What strikes an American is the singular maturity of the young leader of the Nationalists. At 28 he would be two years short of eligibility for the United States Senate, but he has a riper knowledge of the world than four-fifths of our Senators. They grow up sooner in Europe than we do here...