Word: slating
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...these factors go together to make the Mid-westerners topheavy favorites today at odds ranging from 2 to 1 upwards, while critics the country over have picked the Wolverines to keep their slate clean and chalk up a point for the Mid-west in the intersectional rivalry tables. The only thing at present that may make the game a toss-up is the spirit of the Harvard tam, which may break forth in all its fury and wreak revenge on Michigan and bring a victory to Coach Horween in his last year as Harvard coach...
Holds upon hill and valley, rock and slate...
...rejoiced exceedingly last week. The six-year period thus delimited was the era of attempted putsches to restore the Hohenzollerns, the period when "Separatists" in the Rhineland agitated to set up a Rhineland Republic. Last week the German Reichstag with a stately gesture wiped this huge, dirty slate clean, declared a general amnesty for the benefit of persons so fortunate as to have committed their political crimes or treasons between the dates specified...
...start last week on the Thames in New London, but little Gillespie, the Yale coxswain, was shouting less often into the face of Woodruff Tappen, the big stroke. Yale cut its beat to 32, began to gain as soon as Harvard dropped from 40. It was a slate-grey afternoon; on the varnished river the fleet of yachts strung with pennants, crowded with people in summer clothes, stood in silence as the boats swept past the half-mile flags. Yale had almost a one-length lead here and was rowing more easily than Harvard. Now and then the Harvard shell...
...Life. Age: 80. Date: June 21. Celebration: opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace-pipe from Indians in Minnesota; a coonskin cap from the Carolinas; a bronze bucking broncho from the Executive Board of B. S. A.; riding chaps from Texas; a blanket from Navajo Indians...