Word: break
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less advanced instructions will be doled out to the Freshmen showing the efficacy of dodging the singles that bask beneath the arches. How to break a rudder rope and not get it tangled with the bow, how to get into a shell after a crew has pushed off, without adopting the woeful methods of Buster Keaton, and how to steer a course nor'nor' east by nor' through the murky haze of the basin will be considered in every detail. The hardest feat to master, that of coxing two miles in a tight race and keeping the remnants of vocal...
Handicapped by the loss through recent injury of two of its regular entrants, the Harvard wrestling team will be forced to display the sternest sort of fight if the Army is not to break the Crimson record of two consecutive victories when the grapplers meet at West Point this afternoon...
...case of Harvard, I would, were it in my power, discontinue absolutely, and wholly break up, the traditional academic system; Harvard College, save in name and continuity, should cease to exist...
Ohio's arid Cooper said: "I regret I must break on this question with my very good friend Dr. McBride. . . . God has given me a conscience and I must follow its dictates...
...were not a little stirred last week when she gave birth to a girl-child of swarthy skin, jet black hair and beady brown eyes. Since the event was somewhat premature, the babe's father, Sir Tokuji Rao Holkar, deposed Maharaja of Indore, was suddenly obliged to break off playing baccarat at Cannes, French Riviera, whence he rushed to his wife's bedside at St. Germain, near Paris, arriving just in time. Though naturally disappointed that the offspring was not male, Sir Tokuji at once ordered a splendrous and pompous Hindu christening...