Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lewis speaks sarcastically about somebody buying a drink, but if Mr. Lewis himself was ever caught buying a drink for anybody, at least 1,000 people would drop dead. . . . I am answering Mr. Lewis with words now, but some day I will answer him by punching his face in. . . . Just because by his malicious personal attack he exposes himself in public as a cad and a bounder, he cannot expect me to imitate...
...were gleaned on kicks after the eight touchdowns scored by the green-jerseyed men. Unless his kickers come along fast, Coach Hawley will be at a serious disadvantage in tight games. Tully and Sage, veteran ends, are the only members of the squad who are at all proficient at drop-kicking. The squad possesses no capable place-kicker, and even the kicking off has not been entirely satisfactory...
...would confer on society a benefit of very great value. At present the outlook in the colleges is far from hopeful. The student reads in his room less and less. As a rule he shares his rooms with one or more friends, and when they and their acquaintances drop in--as they are wont to do--studying becomes out of the question. More and more the student is beginning to utilize his room for bridge, or the victrola, or some sort of a good time; and when he feels the need for study, he repairs to the spacious and comparatively...
...fancy Lou Gehrig, Yankee first baseman, Leo Diegel, Canadian open golf champion, Edwin F. Harkins, famed fisherman, and Er. Paul W. Crouse, champion U.S. bow and arrower, indulging in a contest over a set distance, the archer to hit a 12-inch target, the fisherman to drop his bait in the a yard-wide hoop, the baseman to hit a tub as wide as a man's chest, and the golfer to sink is putt. Imagine it, said the The New York Evening World, and forthwith, over the last nine holes of the Belleclaire Country Club, L.I., thet hing...
...College Office announces that tomorrow is the last day on which undergraduates in the College and Engineering School may drop or add courses beginning this half year. Students filling applications later than this will be liable to a fine of five dollars...