Word: akin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stevens '35 and H. J. Young '35; First base--J. E. Hollis '35 and P. G. Vitagliano '35; Second base--H. F. Gillette '35, C. P. Kostarelos '35 and W. F. LeRoy '35; Third base--W. C. Crawford '35 and P. L. Hollins '35; Short stop--A. J. Akin '35 and G. F. McInnes '35; Outfielders--E. A. Crane '35, R. M. Knowles...
News of Ivar Kreuger's death was withheld by the Paris police until after the stockmarkets of the world had closed for the weekend. When it reached Sweden it caused something akin to panic. In London a "high Swedish authority" received a representative of the Times with a sad face. "Poor Kreuger," he said. "Creditors were closing...
...shipmasters who have viewed with articulate alarm the "cruises to nowhere" sponsored by foreign lines, last week viewed with something akin to horror a new policy of Cunard Steamship Co. Cunard passengers would not be carried to "nowhere," but they would be carried elsewhere for hardly any cash fare at all.* Under an arrangement with Morris Plan Corp. of America, industrial moneylenders, Cunard inaugurated a system of installment plan transportation that would enable the wanderlusty to go to Europe for as little as $34 down...
...Corruption of public trust in high places, acts akin to treason and affecting the entire nation, cannot be tolerated or condoned. It appears conceded as a fact established during several thousand years, and not now to be philosophized away, that the fabric of justice cannot endure if mercy be permitted to set aside the penalties meted out in our gravest criminal cases by our highest law tribunal. . . . Parole issuance would be unjustifiable and incompatible with the welfare of society...
...game. This Medieval hocus-pocus known as "Getting Behind the Team," is being left behind in favor of an attitude which, in itself, may prove the most effective balance wheel to the sport. The undergraduates to whom I have spoken no longer regard their football teams as something akin to the defenders of the Grail, but rather as an adjunct to the university, put there for their entertainment on Saturday afternoons, and somewhat in the same category as the tennis courts, the swimming pool and the golf course...