Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teams," was the statement issued to a CRIMSON reporter, by F. W. Moore '93, Harvard's representative on the Committee. "We decided that we needed something to check the overuse of the pass. Football was resolving itself into a game of basketball. The new rule was merely adopted to curb the so-called 'wild' passes which usually feature the end of a close game. It will not effect the use of legitimate forward passing...
...Wellesley College, Professor Lawrence P. Smith distributed among his pupils in a course on the financial organization of society, $25,000 each, with instructions to go and invest or speculate in corporate securities, stocks or bonds, on any stock exchange or curb market in the country, from Feb. 21 to May 1-$25,000 apiece of real money, theoretically. The market-players last week announced "profits" and "losses" taken, to date. The total profits were $14,000; losses $660, with plungers "selling short" and conservatives "holding on like grim death" during the recent wild days in Wall street (see BUSINESS...
...have remarked the absence from the small town press of that virile political flavor which formerly distinguished it. Rural newspaper have come to rely more and more upon advertising for their support. And since advertisers are particularly capricious in bestowing their patronage, experience has taught the rural editor to curb his native vigor. The doctrine preached by the late Mr. Munsey has triumphed...
...Queen. Motoring through the slums of the East End last week Queen Mary was greeted at ane point by sullen glances and dour silence, instead of the cheers which are her usual portion. Undaunted, she bade her chauffeur draw up at the curb opposite a particularly ungracious throng. Stepping out, Her Majesty evinced an interest in several brats squalling on the sidewalk. Their mothers, flattered, melted into smiles. Cried a burly oysterman: "'Ere now! Give 'Er Majesty a clap; she's worth...
...snow plows which appeared late in the morning on Massachusetts Avenue did excellent work but proved the downfall of many motorists who left their automobiles parked at the curb and returned to find them snow bound after the plows had raised mounds three feet high between the curb and the tracks. Later in the afternoon the surface car transportation practically ceased and Cambridge was isolated but for the Subway. Taxicabs were at a premium and one driver from the wheel of his much sought after conveyance was heard to remark to a group of petitioning fares on the curbstone...