Word: cante
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mornings, onetime Boxer Sydney Robey Leibbrandt punched his shadow about his cell. In the afternoons, he ranted Nazi cant. At night, he ignored his comfortable prison bed for a wooden bench. Three days of each month, he fasted...
Final--Won by Doran (Princeton), 136 pts.; second, Buratti (Rutgers), 130.6 pts.; third, Cant (Pennsylvania), 127.4 pts.; fourth, Pastel (Harvard), 99.8 pts.; fifth, Krotkiewicz (Navy...
Princeton, Rutgers (which has a good, small squad), Dartmouth, and Navy are the top-dogs in the 300-yard medley relay. The low board diving event finds Bill Cant of Penn, Ralph Buratti of Rutgers, Ed Smyke of Springfield, Bill Schacht of Dartmouth, and Andy Doran of Princeton the most likely first five...
...Wendell Willkie has made himself a world figure in three weeks. . . . He has done this by saying a number of simple ordinary things, things which are said at thousands of dinner tables, things which are thought by thousands of minds. Only he has broken with peddlers of cant and dispensers of mushmouth talk to say these things out loud...
Costs are computed so closely that when the hall is running according to schedule, a profit of only one-tenth of a cant is earned for each plate. Only four full-time kitchen helpers are employed, since the Cooperative has 25 graduate student workers who earn their meals by working ten hours a week...