Word: branding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would have held of the initiative and referendum; it has even been suggested how Isaiah would have received Billy Sunday. Strangely, however, no one has ever informed us of Phillips Brooks' words, should he enter Phillips Brooks House. For the Bishop was an inveterate smoker. He purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado Claro, and these he did not use sparingly. But think of the utter chaos which would result from Phillips Brooks lighting a cheroot in Phillips Brooks House in the year 1917. No mild reproval or honey-worded request would be tendered...
...hold any position of authority. The former captains and top-sergeants will now condole with each other as they stand at attention in the rear rank. To have blown first sergeant's call once to often or to have put an extra mule in the field kitchen,--such mistakes brand a man as being unworthy of command...
Barry, T. A., '06, Batchelor, C. C., 3G, Berle, A. A., '13, Berman, I., '15, Billings, F. E., '19, Blanchard, C. B., '14, Bower, J., '19, Brackett, R., '12, Brand, J. T., '14, Brewer, J. W., '17, Briggs, R. E., '20, Brown, H. H., '09, Bubier, T. S., '02, Buell, M. S., '17, Burns...
...brave little people." Germany has had so much to do with brave little peoples in the past three years that she may pass as a judge. Her sympathies, it must be admitted, have been for Finland, Ireland, and Greece. She has seen with no overburdening woe the desolation by brand and steel of Serbia, the destruction of Belgium, the extinction of half of the Armenian race by the Turks for the honor of Islam. Yet now her ethics may not allow her to see without agony the deposition of Tino, alien king of Greece...
...fifth place in the intercollegiate meet. The tournament with Yale last year was lost by a much larger score, despite the absence of Captain W. H. Russell '18 in the match at New Haven this year. Throughout every contest on their schedule the University team displayed a more finished brand of fencing than has been the case in past seasons...