Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittstown, Pa., coal mines at 17, stocky, square-faced, blue-eyed Faustin E. Wirkus enlisted in the Marine Corps, was shipped to Haiti in 1917 as a sergeant. While serving at the tiny outpost of Anse à Gallet, he saw a hard-boiled tax collector drag in a big black Haitian woman who had defied the law. She said she was Queen Timemenne of La Gonave. Sergeant Wirkus smoothed out her troubles, got her free...
...would bury the hatchet and resume football relationships. The CRIMSON, for one, refers to the breach as having been "unpleasantly made and foolishly maintained." We feel that reconciliation should come before the breach has time to become traditional and therefore irreparable. But it looks as though the issue will drag on for a number of years, gradually becoming more and more of a joke. There might even be benefit in that, because someday it will become so absurd that the continued estrangement of the two institutions in foot ball will be impossible. Yale Daily News
...wave at their "friend"; always Pilot O'Brien waggles his wings in salute. Last week, to the joy and amazement of the youngsters, Pilot O'Brien circled the schoolhouse at low altitude, dropped a tree, flew on. Looking back, he could see the children seize it, drag it toward the schoolhouse-probably the first Christmas tree they ever...
...less violent experiments. From hangar to hangar at Roosevelt Field, L. I. last week trudged Farmer Perry, a spare, spectacled figure in grey cap and overcoat, with a bulky bundle under his arm. He was looking for someone to try his latest invention-"a resistance eliminator, or anti-drag fan." Inventor Perry showed it: a 12-in. steel disc equipped with four scoop-like blades to be affixed to the spinner (hub) of an airplane propeller. "It makes a partial vacuum in front of the propeller," he explained. "It bores through the air. I got the idea five years...
Premises. The modernizing of higher education in the U. S. has everywhere had the same aims: to free the capable student from the drag of the incapable; to encourage and reward intellectual initiative. And everywhere the liberalizing process has included these steps: removal of compulsion to study; replacement of frequent, specific examinations with in frequent, comprehensive ones. Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth long since took modifications of these steps. In Dr. Alex ander Meiklejohn's experimental college at the University of Wisconsin, the radical plan of studying human eras whole instead of human knowledge piecemeal has been tried with success...