Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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English A. has always been regarded by those unfortunate enough to take it as a lifeless burden, and the present attempt of University Hall to reduce the membership in this intellectual chain gang shows a liberality which will be dully appreciated by incoming Freshmen. In the past the only ones to escapade the penalty were those prep school students who had achieved an honor grade in their College Board examination in English, this system being a distant discrimination against that large group entering under the highest seventh plan...
...News Leader he said he was "looking for a cheap and warm and comfortable place to write a humorous novel of California." . . . At William & Mary College homecoming of alumni last week, the colored Henry Billups, bell-ringer of the college for 48 years, was given a gold watch and chain and bell fob, a new broom and a Bible. An early Christmas for Henry this year...
Training his fire on world ills, Mr. Smith declared the depression was the result of God's stretching a chain across the toll road of life and claiming possession. People are then forced to stop and think, and they are dissatisfied with what money brings. "They that sow of the flesh shall reap of the flesh," was the evangelist's concluding volley...
Then up the street comes the horn-blowing auto parade and other claptrap of small town electioneering. A long unbreakable chain of vehicles and each is filled with happy political petty wigs, insensible to every concept of higher duty...
Dedicated to a noble creed the protection of the innocent against the deceiving, the watchdog sees not the ensnaring chain approaching. And suddenly he is trapped, hemmed to the curb by the long chain of cars passing by and the drivers anaware that they are the feels of an insidious force...