Word: clinkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April and the twenty-first of June the College will witness or take part in 146 athletic events assures the restless undergraduate that there will be no lack of activity for the next few months. And for the more domestically inclined the golf ball will shortly replace the clinker as seasonal big game. In a word, physical will soon supersede intellectual exertion...
...doubt if it was difficult to decide in 1770 whether "Humphrey Clinker" was a greater masterpiece than "Pamela" and whether "the Sentimental Journey" would outlive "Roderick Random". But today matters are infinitely more complicated by the hundreds of best sellers advertised in the book supplements and the far greater number of others each termed by some one the book of the hour...