Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some evangel of hate who came to Chicago from the East when Harvard and Princeton finally broke relations, but, even so, there is the feeling among Chicago Harvard men that athletic relations should be resumed. Elsewhere throughout the West Harvard graduates whom the writer has met deprecate the break without question, and invariably the first question they put to the writer involves the prospects of a restoration of football and other competitive games between the two. If in the East the two bodies of alumni regretted the Harvard-Princeton status as deeply as they do in the middle West...
...unfortunate that the Major's conduct is not typical of the attitude of the church at large to such onslaughts. Usually when a pastor sees a menacing umbrella, he attempts to wrest it from the hands of the brandisher, and break it against future attacks. And in his failure to do so, he betrays the weakness of his body. Such was the case of Dr. Straton who recently lost in court his case against a militant atheist whose propaganda was hardly worthy of such attention...
Last week contract time came again and again the Roosevelt Line sought to break into the jute trade. Nor did they come softly. They brandished before the eyes of shippers and importers of jute a freight rate card. That card offered to carry a ton of jute from Calcutta to New York or Boston for approximately $4. The rate had been $7.90 a ton. The Cunard-Brocklebank officials read the Roosevelt Line rate figures and, counting well on the loyalties of old clients, reduced their rate to $4.50 a ton. A rate...
...does seem too bad to dirty the linen. Writers can wash it in public, but most people rounding the curve and seeing the straight stretch are too weak not to determine to keep the sprint unimpeded. And so they make resolutions, and are the better for it; and break them and are the worse for it. It is wearying to be platitudinous on this subject but the only way not to be trite, and to beat the humorist is to make no resolutions, and then stick to them...
Health officials in New York have now declared that the subway is immoral. To the dwellers in the wicked city who have always been perturbed about their reputation, and who smoke that brand, this information is the straw to break the camel's back. The apparatus of modern civilization has had the tendency to throw the people into the throes of vice, it is true. Dr. Fosdick went as far as to say that a path bestrewn with chewing gum led as surely to Hell as to a telephone exchange, but to have that stigdra east on the subways seems...