Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recorded in the sacred annals of the Medes and Persians--so our friend the scholar in Semitic 12 informs us--that when Artaxerxes, king of all the world from the Euphrates to the Tigris, went to battle he armed the front line of his phalanges with a buffer of pugnacious elephants. On each elephant was a wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth...
...direct the general policy while Mr. Haines will be with the crews daily and give the men individual instruction in the art of handling an oar. This arrangement appears to be ideal as it combines at the same time graduate and professional training. Mr. Herrick will act as a buffer for graduate advice and criticism which he will carefully sift out and pass on to Mr. Haines. The latter will thus be free to carry out his program unhampered by "too many cooks...
...firm hand to keep it closed. Many governments had been built up and had given way before the incursions of stronger races. Finally, the forefathers of the present inhabitants settled in there and became Western Christians. After a long invasion the Turks were driven out, and a firm buffer protected the West from the East. The preservation of Hungary thus brought about has been most remarkable, and its solution has been the early assertion of a strong spirit of national unity. This unity had to struggle against feudalism and the racial problem. The solution of the latter was a compromise...
...necessary to compare soccer to American football, nor is it the intention to boom the game by using American football as a buffer. We are but attempting to give an idea of what possibilities are open to every student, who has any athletic ability, to learn a game which he will not only find enjoyable in college, but will also be able to continue after he is graduated. W.S. SEAMANS...