Word: chested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble for all concerned. This year the system has worked much less successfully, and more than one appeal has been made that pledges be paid as promptly as possible. In this connection it is particularly significant that the Princeton Student Council which has in recent years employed a community chest for the same purpose has been faced, by the insufficient response met with, to urge that the method of collecting in a lump sum be given up in favor of a return to the former system of individual drives. The Princeton Student Council in reporting its decision deplores the situation...
...situation at Princeton will scarcely pass unnoticed in view of the fact that a very similar situation seems to be in the making at Harvard. At Princeton where the community chest has been used for several years past, the Student Council has further been forced to send letters to the parents or guardians explaining the situation and seeking their help in meeting the obligations neglected by the undergraduates. Such a crisis has not been reached as yet at Harvard; it might never occur. But to such as are prone to take the budget pledge somewhat lightly and to have...
...print, growl and mutter, roar like lions or bark like foxes. The word "tolerance" is a small blind rabbit creeping into a heap of refuse. "Evolution" is the word that many people find the most terrifying of any in the zoo. It is a huge sly creature with barrel chest and four foot arms. It has a flat skull and sly, surly eyes. Last week, disregarding the signs that forbid feeding the animals, one J. H. Tate, principal of the Farragut Grammar School, near Knoxville, Tenn., threw this horrible creature a roasted peanut...
...police dog scampered beside the car in which she was taken away. He wagged his tail beside the grave in which Jule Price was buried. Remembering things she had loved once, and might still need, he took them to her one by one, carrying them from a cedar chest in the nursery to the Berlin Cemetery...
Down the final stretch the chest of the sturdy Penn runner showed a yard and then two yards, ahead. The Red and Blue broke the worsted a yard and a half before the Crimson-jerseyed athete. The time of 1 minute, 53 seconds, set a new intercollegiate mark. Bingham's time, 1-5 of a second slower, still stands as the Harvard record...