Word: clung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Dionne Quintuplets clung to life 31 months ago in Callender, Ont. and the world outside woke up to their uniqueness, Photographer Fred Davis of the bustling Toronto Star suggested selling their pictures to newspapers and services to help meet the expense of keeping...
Presumably, the bogey of professionalism is to be laid for good and all by this "organized association". This has not been the case with the Big Ten, where only Chicago has clung to honestly amateur standards. Recruiting varies in blatancy among the other nine, and at Wisconsin there has recently been under discussion a plan to organize "athletic scholarships" specifically for ability upon the playing field, and to create a fund to be administered by the dean, to reward these cave...
...narrow margin of 21 votes Harvard College clung to its traditional Republican moorings according to final figures in the CRIMSON presidential poll conducted yesterday...
...flood. It struck a house, was smashed to pieces. He leaped at the moment it struck, landed on the roof of the dwelling. Simultaneously its walls caved in. Victor clambered up the collapsing roof, was being submerged when another house boiled up in the flood and he clung to its eaves. He lost his grip and fell, but landed on a part of the roof of the barn, went spinning toward destruction as the wreckage piled up around him. Just as a freight car reared up over his head the pile of wreckage gave way, and he was shot forward...
...link between New England and the Middle Ages. A great writer whose thoughts were always turning on tales of witchcraft and madness, Hawthorne had a genius which was always threatened by the quicksand of melancholy. He enchanted children with stories that could make adults shiver and his writing "clung to the mind like music." Cut off from the sources of his inspiration in old age, after his travels abroad, Hawthorne's genius disintegrated where Emerson's grew more powerful. At last he could not write at all, getting into that frantic state of inability to concentrate that later...