Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supply to the tutors. As a vast extension of the previous rule regarding scholarship holders, it has decreed that no students shall be employed by the Massachusetts Avenue schools. This rule will be a vital link in Harvard's chain of action. In itself, it will strike a heavy blow at the tutoring bureaus--just how stunning the proprietors alone know. It must be enforced; and a cooperative attitude from the students, together with ruthlessness on the part of University officials are capable of doing this...
Beside the little Pawcatuck River, six miles back of where the Atlantic makes Watch Hill a swank summer resort, the lively 270-year-old town of Westerly, R. I. (pop.: 11,000) lies snug against most ordinary ocean blows. But the one that whistled in on the afternoon of last September 21 was no ordinary blow, it was the wildest in the memory of any New Englander. Having washed a good deal of Watch Hill away, it tossed garages and outbuildings into the air, snapped off church steeples, huffed houses down, crippled the power lines, blew in, among others...
Uncle Sam is not the kind That's looking for a fuss; But if they should feel inclined To take a shot at us- Talk about your rallying Should the bugle blow, No delay or dallying, Bang! And off we'd go! We must be ready. It's well to be ready. You never can tell-you never can tell In a fight, what they might prepare to do. They might compel us to yell, "We dare you to." And so we must get busy...
Nono. In appearance Joyce is slight, frail but impressive. He stands five feet ten or eleven, but looks as if a strong wind might blow him down. His face is thin and fine, its profile especially delicate. He wears his greying, thinning hair brushed back without a part. Joyce reads and writes sprawling in bed or on a couch but he does not like it known. He is very formal in public, in restaurants prefers straight-back chairs in which he sits bolt upright...
Homers by Captain Mike Rice and Les Pitchford accounted for a five run spree in the big fourth inning. Pitchford's mighty blow came with the sacks loaded...