Word: billiard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stressing the billiard facilities and the use of the lounges in the club building, the glib-tongued super-salesman was on his way to a small fortune when he unwittingly approached two Seniors with his nefarious proposition, and was soundly squelched...
Buxom Mrs. Norton, no tearful, bumbling matron but a toughened politician of Mayor Frank Hague's hard-boiled Jersey City school, well knew what was about to happen. For while her New Deal colleague, ancient Adolph Sabath of Illinois, sat at the head of the long billiard-baized table as Rules Chairman, all eyes watched the committee's real overseer, Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Georgia, head hatchet-man of the conservatives...
Since September the first eight Nieman Fellows have been following their collective nose for knowledge into Harvard's classrooms, laboratories, libraries, professorial dens. (A ninth, Irving Billiard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will start next term.) As a combination managing editor and wet nurse they have able Poet-Journalist Archibald MacLeish, whose official title is "Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism...
...lenses diffract the image at the bottom of the tube so that the physician has a clear view of the stomach wall as he twists the gastroscope. Insertion of the instrument is easy: the physician anesthetizes the patient's throat, grasps the gastroscope in both hands like a billiard cue, pokes the rubber end gently but firmly down the patient's throat and esophagus into his stomach. Examination lasts from three to five minutes, causes the patient slight dis comfort, but no pain...
...Philosophy professor. Vag had taken Phil. A way back in his sophomore year. Now he didn't even remember what epistemology was. What was that course about? Oh, yes, Descartes. "I think, therefore I am!" That had been very simple. Spinoza... Spinoza... complete blank. Hume: If one billiard ball strikes another at a velocity of...Oh, well, who was on his left?... Directly opposite sat the House Master. God! This was the center of the table and sitting on the Master's right, close enough for Vag to kick in the shins was the Great Red Pepper himself...