Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...syllabus represents the epitome of "knowledge served on a silver platter." By its use, the average undergraduate can temporarily absorb and entire term's work in three hours and, entrenched in this manner, successfully thwart the parries of the most despotic "prof." With the examination past history hew can then seek new learning in another field, entirely unhampered by a brain loaded with other ideas. And thus the four years pass most enjoyably. --Daily Princetonian...
...suddenly seized with the conviction that he is not being true to himself as a painter. Why should he thwart his innate genius by painting in accustomed ways? So he exhibits his originality by delineating a cotangent and a secant descending a staircase under the last X-rays of the setting...
Once more, according to custom, spring has revived the tender green. The undergraduate, the object of the hortatory editorial, must therefore once more be supplicated not to thwart Nature by killing the grass. Already the Yard has become riddled with unsightly short-cuts, with many more in an embryonic state. So little effort need be expended in turning aside to the ever-present path, that it seems unfortunate to mar the greensward. Now that most of the trees are gone, the grass is the Yard's chief natural adornment. A feeble will and a cowlike fondness for meandering, these things...
...present the weather is markedly disagreeable. While we cannot legislate such a condition away, we can do something to thwart the malignant Providence which foists it upon us. Whether or no Cambridge has an ordinance commanding the clearing of walks, it still remains the duty of property owners to make them as usable as possible. On the southern side of Massachusetts avenue, where the tradesmen hold sway, the going is fairly good; but on the northern side, the domain of the Corporation, it is abominable. In the Yard, most of the board walks are now visible, but not through...