Word: creep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Conly's suggestion that the reluctance of Harvard students to go out for boxing arises from their inexperience is a point to be well taken, but its implications are manifold. The question of why the students are inexperienced in the manly art occurs, and insidious doubts creep into the mind. That the South Boston attitude toward Harvard men is justified--that the "college young gentlemen" of Cambridge are deficient in masculinity--are conclusions from which the intellect recoils. But if Harvard men are really uninitiated to the mysteries of the left hook and right cross to the jaw, there...
Will glaciers once again, as in prehistoric times, creep slowly down from the poles, herding all animal life into the equatorial belt, gradually covering the whole world? John and Ruth Vassos, historically imaginative, in Ultimo give a picture of what may happen when the ice has driven man off the face of the earth...
...staff of ten at Grand Island will check between 300 and 400 wireless and broadcasting stations during a 24-hour working day. Not only will the wave wobbling of U. S. stations be detected but those in Canada and Mexico will be watched to see they do not creep out of the channels allotted them by international agreements. Entertainment programs will be brought in to evaluate their public worth, though no censorship will be attempted. Before long an automatic recorder will probably be set up to take down programs as part of each station's official record...
...play is adapted by able Kenyon Nicholson from the novel of Helen Zenna Smith. It is concerned with the activities of an English woman's ambulance unit. Early in the play the atmosphere of reminiscence begins to creep in when Kit (Katherine Alexander), weary and broken in spirit, bitterly denounces the hypocritical idealism that the home folk maintain about the War-suggestive of similar sequences in Suspense and What Price Glory. Also, as in What Price Glory, there is a good deal of hysterical cursing of superiors. And as in Journey's End there is a member...
...wanted them to remember how gallantly Tanga's land forces had defended their little fort in 1914, how they had defeated the British East African Expeditionary Force with heavy losses and made the wounded British lion creep ignominiously away! Banquet guests woke the echoes with Hoch! after Hoch! bellowed tearful choruses of Deutschland, Deutschland Über Alles...