Word: cage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other day in a paper that when the word 'rubber' was mentioned, an Englishman's expression was like that of the cat caught by the empty cream jug or the empty canary cage. You will understand that the word 'rubber' does not produce that particular kind of satisfaction in my soul." He told of the ups and downs of rubber planting; told of hard times immediately following the War when "it was literally a case with many plantations of 'To be or not to be-aye, there's the rubber!'" He concluded...
Harvard continued to force the play, and was consistently getting past Princeton's tired defenders, only to be stopped by Colebrook, who several times was forced 15 feet out of his cage to cut down the angle for a score...
Captain Cummings should hold his own with Colebrook, in front of the cage, and goal tending of classic proportions seems to be in store for the spectators tonight
...Significance. Standing before this bear-cage in the literary zoo we say: What an enormous creature! How shaggy and powerful! How he lumbers about, yet they say a grizzly can outrun a horse! And when we have gazed our fill, we say: What a dirty, littered cage! An unkempt bruted labor through it. Mr. Dreiser has declined to improve his knowledge of the English language, and while he is a painstaking reporter, he is a very indifferent craftsman. For him it is more honest to ramble on for 840 pages than to attempt compression and readable sentences. Genius gleams fitfully...
...first practice of the year will be held the day following the meeting, for Freshman pitchers and receivers in the cage. The University candidates will probably be called out about two weeks later. Coach-Mitchell will be building for the future as well as striving for a winning nine this year and expects to give as much of his time as possible to the first year men and the seconds in an effort to develop the material for the succeeding years. Claude Davidson who assisted in the coaching last year will be in charge of the 1929 squad...