Word: cudgelled
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...scalpel and tweezers. It would aid materially in transforming the punctilious prep school student to the tutorial student of the college. It would relieve Seniors of the bother some thought that on some sultry day in June on some beautiful blue summer's day, he must sit down and cudgel his brain for the name of that last minute item in a frog...
...violently dislike to up-cudgel over old issues, but the occasion makes move vivid our recognition of the utter absurdity of dormitory regulations. Here is an affair intended primarily as an outlet for the social pursuits of freshmen and non-Hellenics, and yet an aged and Puritanical doctrine prevents them from enjoying it to the fullest extent...
...attempt to interpret the originality of his scene, but is content merely to reproduce. The reproduction, too, suffers from the immense conglomeration of detail and anecdote; in the end there is neither order nor proportion and both author and reader find themselves hopelessly confused. Mr. Brinig, in assuming the cudgel of the "local culturists" has failed exactly wherein they failed a decade...
...Sajami Das were punished for "sedition." The sedition is supposed to lurk between the pages of the book, India in Bondage- Her Right to Freedom. Last week when Poughkeepsie reporters sought out the author, Dr. Jabez Thomas Sunderland, he was ready for them, ready to wield a potent verbal cudgel in defense of the two Indians who sat in a stinking Bengal jail...
...submarine. Said he: "I tore up a speech I had all ready to deliver in Congress. I have found it seems much easier to navigate a submarine from the office building of the House of Representatives than from the conning tower of a submarine." He returned to Congress, his cudgel up for the Navy...