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And there’s still the unanswered question of what Maryland learned along a bumpy path, whether it will have hardened the Terrapins and how these players will react to the desperation of a win-or-go-home setting.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2016

“It will have hardened by the time Maudie has finished her constitutional among the flower beds,” she giggled.

From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol