Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heaven opened. Arrowsmith had every facility, quiet, no interference. He had Gottlieb and one Terry Wickett, just such a lie-hunter as was Arrowsmith. He raced at his work, struck an unknown germ-eater, "Phage," and paused on the threshold of fame to establish scientific certainty. Came another blow. McGurk Institute, founded to cleanse a grubby name, could not risk loss of publicity. He was ordered to publish his find at once. He refused. A Frenchman found Phage, got the publicity. Arrowsmith was in bad odor at McGurk, even at McGurk, supposedly one of the three strongholds Science...
...heart that it might be a novel, for he had never had a novel although he had wanted one all his life. But early in February, 1923, Mr. Stewart discovered that the 'little stranger' was to be another satire, and although it was a bit of a blow at first, after a few days he got over his disappointment at not having a novel...
Clever satire is rare enough in these days to merit special recognition. In the article reprinted below, the New Student has used it to strike a sure deft blow against all that is illiberal and cheap in American college journalism. It is a fact that many college editors prostitute their intellectual standards and their literary skill to "exhorting application to study, denouncing unmoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass." When modern education allows such inanity to flourish about its inmost shrine there is some reason for Mr. Upton Sinclair...
Major Fred W. Moore '93, who is a member of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee, was in New York attending the meeting of that committee, at which Mr. Camp died. "Mr. Camp's death", he said, when he returned to Cambridge yesterday, "was a great blow to the members of the Committee, of which he is the secretary. I have known him personally for 30 years and consider him the truest sportsman with whom I have ever been acquainted...
...bitter conflict between scholarship and athletics in the University; and that excellence in the former is incompatible with prestige in the latter. He supposes that President Lowell's development of the tutorial system and his hopes for its fostering of scholarship are regarded by alumni as a blow at athletic superiority and a cause of the University's recent defeats in major sport contests. Absurd as all this sounds, Mr. Nichols goes even further. He implies that the tempest of criticism which has stormed about the administration in past months has been aroused by the fear of alumni that Harvard...