Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the two competing newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, offered to sell out to Publisher James M. Cox last summer, he was "a bit shocked." Ohio's spry, old ex-governor and Democratic presidential candidate (1920) doesn't "like newspaper monopolies." But a careful look at the books changed his mind. His own evening paper, the Dayton Daily News (circ. 96,000), was financially sound. The rival morning Journal (circ. 41,000) and evening Herald (circ. 66,000), both published by ex-Marine Colonel Lewis B. Rock, were...
...explained: "I found biting to be more effective." In after-dinner speeches, which he makes as offhandedly as he once handled a football, he likes to describe the best player he ever had in this department, a guard named Biter Jones. "He was terrific. In one season he bit seven guards, one center and a flanker back, and was so clever at it that he was penalized only 65 yards...
...having passed on this bit of wisdom, the Chief Editorial Writer went back to sleep, pausing only to wonder if the Student Council Sub-Committee on Food would get to work nice and early next term. Possibly, he thought drowsily, and if it doesn't ...well, you can't go on quoting William James forever...
With Smith hitting from the bucket on sneaks behind Adams, and Steve Davis and Walt McCurdy contributing from the outside, the Varsity started coordinating a bit better as the clock was running out. But the jitters, similar to those of previous games, came back in the last two minutes and settled any chances of victory...
...three "surplus" Harvard professors for three tankers full of "surplus" Milwaukee beer when both Cambridge and the beer city were celebrating their centennials. He suggested that if the Harvard Community didn't want Plan E government it could secede from Cambridge, and when marching, students roughed him up a bit, he filled Harvard Square with cops armed with tear-gas guns and grenades. Mickey was always full of ideals...