Word: chop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite gloomy pre-race forecasts, and a northwest wind which turned the Charles into a cross-course chop last evening, Tom Bolles' Varsity eight chalked up a decisive length and a half win over M. I. T., and left B. U. far in its wake. With the Jayvee and 150 pound boats following suit, the Crimson took four of the five races, and killed the best chance M. I. T. has had of winning the Rowe...
...shouts after you orai, which stands for "all right" but is actually a form of farewell. In Tokyo the taxis are takuski and the chauffeurs are doraibu. A knife is knaifu, butter is bata, scrambled eggs are sakurambu eggu, beefsteak is beefu teki, chocolate is chokoretto, a mutton chop is maton choppu, soup is soppu, a salad is sarado, celery is serari, a tumbler is koppu (cup). To the moga (modern girl) it is all a pain in the nekku...
...captain, who turned in a sizzling 2:13.8 to win the furlong in the Eastern Intercollegiates at Annapolis last Saturday. Welsh swam a 2:11.4 earlier in the season, but Powers was clocked in 2:11.2 in a practice session and with two more weeks of training might conceivably chop off a few more tenths of a second...
...rarest form you could imagine. Unfortunately, Anne Burr, the Youth Congress champion, is far over-drawn, partly due to Mr. Behrman and in spots to Miss Burr's melodrama. The end of the last act is an anti-climax to an anti-climax, but when they chop that off, "The Talley Method" should settle in a comfortable theatre and stay for a good while...
Three unidentified undergraduates, in a glorious attempt to chop down the Eli goal-posts under cover of night after the game Saturday, ended up in the New Haven brig under charges of trespassing and attempted vandalism...