Word: monstering
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...reform of Massachusetts a 5-cent fare-the exact stand taken now by the "Boston American" and the "Boston Telegram"? Would they be interested in keeping ahead of the game by shouting with us for a 3-cent fare tomorrow? Would they care to hear about the monster rally yesterday when part of the 9,700 of our readers (mostly people who think) cheered to the echo a statement made by a champion of the people: "I want to take this occasion to thank one who is responsible more than anything else for the present status of the 5-cent...
...After a monster rally in Woolsey Hall last night at which Coach "Tad" Jones and Captain Aldrich addressed 2300 wildly enthusiastic students, the Yale team left for Boston at 1.40 today, planning to arrive at the South Station at 5.30. The men will be immediately taken to the Belmont Springs Country Club where they will spend the night, the coaches, however, remaining in Boston at the Hotel Lenox...
...miles south of Miami, there has been picked up the body of a monster that calls to mind those gossips' tales of the fabled Sea Serpent,--tales which persist, even today, in almost every sea-side hamlet. In the days of our fathers, there were always to be found those who, with bated breath, had watched the demon of the sea; and from whose tongues the off-told tale slipped readily over a mug of ale in the smoky seamen's taverns. Weird and fearful were those stories, none the less so because the visible proofs of their truth were...
...deliberately plans to "put one over" on the Faculty is not the clear thinker. He is still immature, still the small boy with a spit-ball mania. To him, his teacher is some far-off monster forcing down his throat--teaching--something that he is convinced will do him no good. His imagination makes his deceitfulness seem clever and in his cleverness he loses sight of the fact that the teacher is not the person who is there to teach but the person from whom he can learn. Failure to learn on the part of the student is no loss...
...show will be brought to a conclusion by a monster sham battle between the two batteries, in which the tanks will also be employed. Detachments of cavaltry, motorized units, motor scouts and machine guns, and both light and heavy guns will be used in the action...