Word: punching
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...ball playing; Yale, through high-class pitching, spectacular fielding and wide-awake work on the bases, shut out Princeton Saturday, 1-0. Twice last week the University blanked strong opponents, Felton and Goode twirling gilt-edged ball, and the team as a whole appearing to carry a powerful punch. Comparative scores denote little in collegiate baseball circles; and if they were employed in sizing up today's opponents, the result would be worse confusion. The playing ability and general morale of the team in the games immediately preceding the series are the only reliable means of comparing the two teams...
...Keyser's "Ride Them Hosses" is a bit of sufficiently vivid cavalry, experience. A. K. Train has discovered the possibility of producing a Punch-like essay by exploiting philosophy and animatism. Mr. Train might do a public service by popularizing 'Butler's vision of the machines that came alive, provided he would at the same time consent to suppress all but the most delicate of his puns. In S. B. Colby's essay on "Keeping an Open Mind," I notice a curious and probably involuntary defect of style, a battering succession of iambic verses...
...benefit of the Smith College Endowment Fund, the University Band will play for a dance following a performance of Thackeray's "The Rose and the Ring" in Brattle Hall Thursday night. The play will be presented by the Marionettes from the Punch and Judy Theatre in Geenwich Village, New York. Among the patronesses are Mrs. Godfrey L. Cabot, Mrs. Samuel M. Crothers, Mrs. Samuel A. Eliot, Mrs. Byron S. Hurlburt, Mrs. Elmer H. Bright, and Mrs. Philip L. Spalding...