Word: ducking
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...Tavannes. This road seemed to be a centre of French batteries and consequently at times, for German shells, a distinctly undesirable situation, to say the least. We never took any stock in one of the Frenchmen who said: 'It isn't the shell you can hear you want to duck for, it's the one you can't hear that will cause the trouble.' When one sees Frenchmen of two years' experience dropping and ducking on hearing the whistle of a shell, one has no compunctions at all in following suit...
Richard Haskins Nichols '17, of Brookline, was found dead of exhaustion and exposure on the marshes in the Barnstable harbor on Tuesday afternoon, December 29. Nichols had gone duck-shooting with two classmates, but left them early Tuesday morning to try for some ducks before luncheon. His continued absence alarmed his companions, who went in search of him about two o'clock, accompanied by an attendant of the hunting shack in which they had been living. The body was found in the bottom of a duck-boat, which was partly filled with water...
...held during the week before the Princeton game-and though a hard fight was expected, there seemed to be no reason to expect anything else than a victory. The weather conditions which proved so disastrous at West Point were not provided against, and the field was a veritable duck-pond. The keepers came in for not a little condemnation for the apparent carelessness in not using the sand, of which there was so much on hand...
...fast and aggressive game. On the offense the forwards showed great improvement in team play and frequently carried the puck the length of the ice and through the second team's defense. For the first time in practice this season, the men followed back quickly after losing the duck...
...should be spoiled by lack of clearness; less length and an explanation of some strange conversations and unaccountable actions would save it from being classed with the other stories of the issue. "Senor Costa's Diplomacy" and "Henderson" suffer equally from want of originality and poor narration. "The Wild Duck" partakes of these characteristics and the added fault of being "poetry...