Word: cramping
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Manhattan, Hewitt Morgan threatened his singular supremacy. In the match, Gould's right hand was seized with cramp. He repeatedly dropped his racquet to massage it. But he won, 6-1;1, 6-1, 11-9. If Morgan had won the third set, Gould might have lost the match through weariness...
Messrs. J. H. Thomas (slated for the post of Minister of War in the Macdonald Cabinet) and C. T. Cramp, General Secretaries of the Railwaymen's Union, issued a manifesto declaring that "any member of the National Union of Railwaymen who ceases work, or refuses to do any job that he would have done if there had been no strike, is a blackleg to the signature of his accredited representatives and a traitor to the decision of the special general meeting. . . . Up to this moment we have refused to believe, although preparing for all emergencies, that so grave...
...purposes that are vital to their welfare. The workers want the army and navy appropriations slashed for the same reason. A great nation like ours ought to be able in times of national unemployment to build necessary roads, canals and public buildings, and our Army and Navy so cramp us that we can do none of these things. Business men want the army and navy appropriations slashed, because taxes are sucking the life-blood of our national prosperity. Our representatives in Congress will make no mistake in the eyes of their constituents if they cut the army and navy appropriations...
...narrowness, we fear the author of yesterday's communication acquired writer's cramp. Certainly there is no attempt at ridicule, and we doubt if any one of that galaxy of fifteen stellar athletes who clamor at our gates would be so supersensitive as to let a lone cartoon of his race influence his choice of college. If such there be, he is unworthy of the sod which has furnished a greater part of the world's wit and humor. We say this advisedly because by a strange coincidence the man who drew the picture and the president of the board...
...quantity of first-class work produced in the way of productive scholarship, and that no amount of second-class work can atone for failure in the college to produce this first-class work. A course of study is of little worth if it tends to deaden individual initiative and cramp scholars so that they only work in the ruts worn deep by many predecessors...