Word: knots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project of the Senior Committee severs the Gordian knot of hoary inefficiency and greases the wheels of progress. Seniors who have had previous experience in Album management will be able to accomplish their task with less trouble and nervous palpitations. The student Council deserves credit for its timely action...
Lowell almost tied a knot in Kirkland's string of victories Tuesday when two brilliant attacks in the second and third quarters left the Bellboys just one point behind their opponents...
...trick is really very simple. The pole (probably not the one originally exhibited) has a strong metal core, and fits solidly into a socket in the ground. Onto its upper end, through the folds of the elaborate knot, is rigidly attached a horizontal iron rod, which passes under the Yogi's arm to the upper side of his body, and from the end of which he is suspended by means of some sort of harness around his body. The rod is concealed by his half-closed hand and voluminous, wrist-length sleeves...
...service for ten days while "structural alterations" and "mechanical overhaul" are proceeded with, object being to reduce the sweep of smut from her funnels, which has been soiling the clothes of passengers on her afterdecks, and to try to get out of her the 34-knot speed officially claimed before she made her maiden voyage with a maximum speed of less than 31 knots...
...green Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts nestle a knot of towns-Lenox, Lee, Stockbridge, Great Barrington- whose natives are hardheaded Yankees, whose summer colonists are sedate, aristocratic New Englanders and Manhattanites. Two of the swankest, most comfortable hotels in the neighborhood are Heaton Hall and the Red Lion Inn at Stockbridge, both owned by Massachusetts' benign, broad-beamed Republican Representative Allen Towner Treadway. Manager of the Red Lion Inn is the Congressman's Yale-educated son, Heaton Ives Treadway, who in the winter runs hotels in Pinehurst, N. C. and Florida...