Word: catch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peace Plan; numerous other peace plans including that of the Christian Science Monitor; the pledge of the student delegates at Indianapolis not to take part in any future wars--with all these intellectual microbes in the air at once it is a fair bet that some people will catch the disease of pacifism. At least many become inspired with the desire to argue the question, and everything points to the conclusion that not a few demand some guarantee for permanent peace...
...Dixon-Peabody match was an upset of all predictions. The Harvard captain played an unusually steady game all the way through, leading a good deal of the time, but the state champion managed to catch up on several occasions and to force a close decision. In the first game Dixon led the scoring up to 14 points where Peabody tied. The game was set then at three and the state champion romped away with the necessary points. In the third game the two men contended for nearly five minutes for the deciding credit which fell to Dixon. The score...
...finds our producers trying new means and methods in production. Theories of the theatre are beginning to be discussed. Plays are published. In the field of stage-design, he finds the most advance. They are the leaders in the new era, forced to mark time while the others catch up. And most significant of all "The theatre is in everyone's eye, at everyone's ear, on everyone's tongue--the most ubiquitous and provocative of the arts...
...hours every evening the public is now privileged to follow the firecracker sputtering of the Westcott family in a new comedy of domestic infelicity. Anne Morrison, actress, is the author, and it is rather more than evident that Miss Morrison keeps an ear to the open window to catch her neighbors' squabbles. The chief merit in the play is the fierce joy you can derive by turning to Aunt Jane beside you and disturbing all within hearing distance with the obvious query: "Isn't that just like the Sullivans...
...Keves '26 entered the court for a game of squash and closed the door behind them. On finishing their match they found that there was no way of opening the door from the inside. Repeated efforts failed to find the "Open Sesame" though a turn of the catch on the outside of the door would have done the trick...