Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken for what is technically known to the habitues of the race track as a ride last week. My record as a seer, hitherto 100 per cent perfect, was dealt a crushing blow 'When the last tick of the telegraph told me that Pennsylvania had beaten Yale, I, though I am a real man's man, sat down and wept like a child. For I, the ne plus ultra forecaster (pretty erudite, that) had missed. I had broken faith with my public. Such are life's tragedies...
...gave assurances, however, that "any attempt to seduce the loyalty of the nation's armed forces" would be strongly dealt with...
Reviving from the blow dealt by Pennsylvania on October 10, the Brown eleven ran roughshod ever its second opponent from the Pine Tree State. Earlier in the season Colby was trampled under foot in the new Brown stadium...
...short and the interval between them rather long, while, conversely, to the abler students he gives of himself eagerly and without stint. Meanwhile, he soothes his conscience with the reflection that the average student, lacking intellectual individuality as he does, is not entitled to individual attention and must be dealt with in the mass, as one of many in a class room...
...Having dealt for a moment in "human interest," the Council returned to arithmetic. To the surprise of English and American financiers, the Bank of England cut its discount rate from 4½% to 4%, the lowest that has been in force since the middle of 1923 (see BUSINESS...