Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite agree with Subscriber Connolley in what he has to say with regard to TIME'S cinema reviews. They sound to me as though they were written by a moron or by some old crab who should be working for the Anti-Saloon League...
...only by rowing a stroke which was too high for their own efficiency. Harvard jumped ahead on both the false start and the second one, but soon lost its lead, barely keeping abreast of its two rivals until G.W. Behrman, Coach Wray's new prodigy stroke man, caught a crab just above the Harvard Bridge and dislocated the whole crew Bridge and dislocated the whole crew for a couple of strokes, losing three quarters of a length...
THIS is a skeptic age--and such periods have never been conducive to poetry, at least of an epic scale. One can readily see how mediocre verse fits in with the skeptic's view of things--it gives him cause to crab at the age's low level--and how their mutual dependency makes them thrive under such consoling companionship. At the same time, but perhaps not so patently, one may see how great poetry must be irritating to the skeptic. But it certainly consoles those with a larger and deeper philosophy of life. One feels as the one ought...
Professor P. E. Raymond, associate professor of Paleontology and curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, has been awarded the Walker Grand Prize of $1000 for his work on the fossils known as trilobites. Trilobites, now extinct, were marine animals somewhat similar to the present-day horseshoe crab...
...other coach has turned out as consistently fine crews as Leader. He lost two races last year: one to Harvard, when a Yale man "caught a crab," and one to Princeton, through overconfidence. The Yale crew did not raise its beat until it was inside the flags marking the last quarter mile and even at that it finished within a few feet of the winner. If it had not been for these two slips Leader would have a record of six years without a defeat. He is efficient because he is absorbed in training a crew to row, without considering...