Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read in today's CRIMSON the adverse editorial on the proposed public oral divisional examinations of the concentrators in History and Literature. It is the most stupid thing I have ever heard of, and utterly lacking a bass is in reason--the editorial, with a bit of foresight, anybody can see how truly admirable the plan is. To line the greatest shame of all is that we must thank a Yale man for it. There is no possible reason why knowledge accumulated at the expense of the University should not be offered back, at least partially, and how better than...
...willing to be fair, I think you will admit that in a short time the examinations will be looked forward to with great eagerness--men will compete hotly for the honor of representing their departments, and what is now regarded with a bit of mal de mer, will be looked on, to use Dwight Fiske's immortal word...
...even hinted that there might not be much point in looking for it, the perverse have been looking. What became of the Bandicoot? No one ever knew. Well, hardly anyone, but a student of biology, casting about through the caverns of Peabody Museum this week, came upon a curious bit of taxidermy. The label, like all Peabody labels, was in flower long before Saki's colonel, and it reads "Broad-Billed Bandicoot." Spurred on by his discovery, the student of biology is now planning to invade Widener's "Books Uncatalogued for Lack of Funds, 1932-1933, 115,000." After...
...thunderstorm over Charleston Bay from the Battery, a country store at Mars Bluff, S. C., old churches and older graveyards lent their bit to the production. In search of a house for the Connellys Director King and party visited Redcliffe, plantation home of the descendants of Senator James Henry ("Cotton is King") Hammond (1807-64) at Beech Island, S. C. across the Savannah River from Augusta, Ga. Noted were its enormous hall, its silver hardware, its fallen plaster, its air of dingy decay. Outside of Florence, S. C., Director King found the old Johnson plantation house which he had carefully...
...mistress' window. This appeared, in varying forms, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, everywhere with a local colour of its own. Scarcely less widespread was the story that Virgil had devised an ingenious lie detector, the bocca della verita, in the form of an animal's head which bit off the finger of anyone guilty of falsehood...