Word: drag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annoyed on the slightest provocation and his huge fists contract in his more or less consistent effort to control himself. He trembles on the brink of explosion most of the time. His indignation is righteous and his anger is of the inspiring kind that would end in a knockdown drag-out fight?if he hadn't spent 62 years learning to keep in leash. He collects, as a matter of fact, all manner of weapons and murderous devices. His manners are anything but mild. Only dogs, old ladies and children escape his tongue lashings...
...other frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic verbal form was outlined to the Hitler Government by Comrade Litvinoff the last time he passed through Berlin. Hotly German Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath cried "Nein!" That rebuff made it necessary to drag in Great Britain as a stern godfather able to impress Adolf Hitler...
Publisher Richard Simon: Drag is a wonderful thing - make use of it. ... The publishing business is hard. In the last ten years I have received applications personally from at least 5,000 young men, and I haven't given a job to one of them...
...their lives making fortunes unjustly at the expense of others; all these heard the same sentiments when they left college and supposedly, were suitably impressed. Some members of 1934 will undoubtedly be guilty of the same things. And then, so many of our learned confreres tell us today that "drag" and connections have no place in a system which is undergoing such drastic changes. Don't believe them. This is one of the chief ways in which one can get a job today; it is later that one has a chance to prove his worth. Seniors should not be ashamed...
...solid background of Harvard life and finances. The term "two-degree system" would mean more than two varieties of parchment. Its general operation would liberate the picked scholar from the toils of the more elementary courses, from the stifling contacts of the inferior section meetings, and from the drag of ordinary students and probationers. He could pick his work from all the undergraduate and graduate courses, and enjoy as much or as little tutorial effort as he might choose. At the end of four, five, or perhaps six years he would take a special set of divisional examinations, and receive...