Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Mahan and King were running wild for Harvard, they stacked up against a team of extremely hard tacklers, lead by the hardest tackling quarterback that has played the game of football, Glick. Time and again Mahan or King would get loose only to be tackled by Click. Harvard was lucky to win 10 to 6. Yale also managed to beat this Princeton team coached by "Speedy" Rush but when a Yale man started to boast to Rush about the great Yale victory Rush bet the overconfident Eli that Harvard would beat Yale by 40 points. The score...
Flurry. Who drafted this unprecedented document? Its purveyors refused to say. The hundred odd famed signatures made it white-hot news. Fearful of lagging behind, the great news agencies tarried not to investigate but broadcast this roundest of round robins as fast as cable relays could click. Local editors in every capital hastily picked a financier of foreign nationality as the documents' author. British editors picked signatory Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank. Germans favored signatory Montagu Norman,*** Governor of the Bank of England. Frenchmen were sure that signatory John Pierpont Morgan was at the bottom...
Spain. "Oh, please don't set the piano on fire!" is heard now in every dance or recreation hall where Spaniards gather to drink hot milk and coffee, to sip gravely a green or golden chartreuse, to listen while supple dancers click their castanets, or to glide through sinuous tangos...
...known in this day of changing conceptions and fluctuating principles about the exact mental, physical, and moral discipline which the modern child requires. With the home leaning, from either ignorance or pure selfishness, upon the school, a higher type of educator is most necessary that the colleges need not click their gates against faces more ambitious than intelligent...
Down in the front of the orchestra with his daughter Florence sat Mr. Talley. Genial, gentle, a little embarrassed, he radiated satisfaction. After the second act he (a professional telegrapher) found his way back stage, broke into his first vacation" in 18 years to click off an Associated Press despatch on an improvised apparatus: "THE THINGS THAT THE TALLEY FAMILY HAVE BEEN DREAMING OF FOR 15 YEARS HAVE COME TRUE STOP OUR LITTLE GIRL IS SINGING TO THE WORLD AS WE ALWAYS THOUGHT SHE COULD SOMETIME DO AND WOULD DO CHARLES M. TALLEY...