Word: dearly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...referee, who, lacking hard-and-fast rules, usually sends close bouts into an overtime session. Also, under present rules, it is possible for a man to win without displaying any aggressive wrestling. Such a wrestler could gain an early time advantage and then merely stall or hang on for dear life until the end of the bout...
There was a young man who said, "God Must think it exceedingly odd That the Juniper tree Just ceases to be When there's no one about in the quad." Wrote Knox: Dear Sir, it is not at all odd, I am always about in the quad...
...songs with a confidence which shows considerable talent; close on his heels comes D. Gordon Halstead, '40, who plays the part of the sweet young thing to perfection. Philip C. Starr, '40, portrays the inevitable "other woman," sings all his songs as though he were letting out for dear old Maine, and rolls around the stage with a lascivious list to starboard; the combination is priceless...
...Mississippi State College for Women lonely Freshmen these days are forced by upperclassmen to play a game combining the salient characteristics of "post office" and "dear lonely heart" which has resulted in a flood of fan mail addressed Harvard men, sight unseen...
...other rearmament jokers flustered the War Department last week: 1) Under an amendment sponsored by "Dear Alben" Barkley for C.I.O., a department head may not award any contracts for national defense to bidders whom he finds guilty of unfair labor practices. 2) New Hampshire's Republican Charles William Tobey got the Senate to limit profits on Army aircraft contracts to 10% (as in the Navy, where a similar limitation has been in effect since...