Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again over the Basin course, with the strokes shifted. Watts, who rowed with a Freshman boat yesterday, may be back in a University shell next week. Following Monday's race, Coach Brown intends to make a slight shift and raise a few men from the second squad. The expected cut to two crews will probably not take place until the end of the week, at the earliest...
...decks and burnished brass and steel made rainbows in flying spray. More than 100 U. S. warships strung out in a long grey line against lazily heaving waves and the deep blue of the sky. Huge battleships, their flags flying, moved along like imperturbable swimming pyramids; slim grey destroyers cut through the water as precisely as a butcher's whirling knife slices cheese; ungainly plane and submarine tenders waddled past. The only sounds were the faint swish of the waves, the wasp-like drone of seaplanes soaring overhead...
...make the team and great numbers of students who do not reach the varsity, live, through many months of the year by and for football and nothing else, under discipline second in efficiency only to that of war itself. How to save the sport and at the same time cut away whatever damages the students as individuals and the institutions as a whole, is the question to which President Hopkins addresses himself...
...Cut off their tails "(With a carving knife...
...mouth of the Fatma River. Waves quickly smashed the plane. It was a hard mile swim to shore. Soon Moorish tribesmen swarmed over the wrecked plane, dug into the batteries for gold and silver, got nothing but a bad electric shock. From the aviators they took money and watches, cut the soles of their shoes for concealed gold. Later they marched the Major and his companions barefooted over the hot sands for many hours, hid them, in sacks on camels' backs while tribesmen shot at planes sent in search of the flyers. But now he felt fine. Soon he would...