Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sounds sweet to be knocked out: no feeling at all," the heavyweight champion of New England told the reporter. "It doesn't bother a bit: you just get up and collect your wits and your money." He stopped to weigh in, while the CRIMSON representative watched various near-great boxers punching the bag or each other, while men in all walks of life entered Kelley and Hayes' Gymnasium at $.25 a head of watch them. Sharkey returned to tape his hands and went on to give his opinion of the Dempsey-Tunney fight at Chicago. "If it hadn't been...
...sharp perception of Headmaster Stearns pointed a moral when he said that the Modern Schoolboy is "possibly a bit lacking in some of the more rugged qualities" due to "the fault of the modern social conditions in which he finds himself living." And Headmaster Perry seemed to sense a lack of mental ruggedness. "They have far more information but possibly less intellectual curiosity...
...matter is first threshed out around the conference table. After two, sometimes three days of eulogy, defamation and near duelling, the matter is put into the hands of a sub-committee. Sub-committees are selected for their impartiality, directly measurable in terms of their unfamiliarity with the subject--a bit of legislative plagiarism that may well incur the resentment of Congress...
...President Coolidge sent for Secretaries Mellon, Hoover and Davis (of War); for Major General Jadwin, Chief of Engineers; for Representative William E. Hull of Illinois, outspoken advocate of a 100% Federal program. After much conferring, the President let it be known that he might let up a bit on his insistence that the flood-region States pay 20% of the cost of their protection...
COQUETTE-A southern girl, flirting a bit too far, falls bitterly in love (TIME...