Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awfully sorry to get back, but while I have been having a wonderful time, I gather also that both houses of Congress have been having a wonderful time in my absence. "Furthermore, I expected on this trip to get some good publicity about the fish I was catching, but couldn't in view of the fact that here in Washington apparently you good people have been going from Wirt to Wirt." He paused, but the Congressmen were too befuddled by the sight of him to laugh even at a Presidential pun. "For you younger members of both Houses-speaking...
Harvard was rowing in the Olympic trials at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, back in the summer of 1932. Bissell, Cassedy, and Whiteside carefully mapped out their plans for the race. They knew that Harvard was primarily a long distance crew. They knew that the Crimson couldn't sustain a high beat for any more than a quarter of a mile. The race was over the Henley distance. They decided to row at a comparatively low stroke for the first mile. Then a quarter of a mile from home, the crew was to throw it in high...
Cassedy grinned between strokes. For the first time his little coxswain was getting panicky. He was watching for the boulder, and he hadn't seen it. He knew that his crew couldn't maintain a high beat for any great length of time, and he wasn't taking any chances of a break in the boat...
...That's what I was trying to tell you," exploded Bissell. You couldn't see the boulder. It was covered with people. I noticed that going...
...Warren T. Thayer was amazed to find himself suddenly the object of large public interest. Day after the letters were published, the hearty old Republican was interviewed in his dingy office above a cigar store. "I had about 50 telephone calls last night but I couldn't make out exactly what it was all about," he chuckled. "If I wrote the letters, they certainly have slipped my mind.'' Asked if they might be forgeries, he declared: "Well, now, I don't think anybody would do a thing like that...