Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...table. While he described the involved dealings of defunct Bank of United States, he poured the water from tumbler to cup, from cup to cup and finally from cup to tumbler. "When it is all over," smiled elderly, benign Mr. Davis, ''you see that not a drop is spilled in the transaction, not even a dollar gained or a penny lost." His client, Isidor Kresel. a lawyer who was also a past master of trial technique, smiled...
...Chorus girls? Another recurrent subject. Well, legs become a means of transportation, and the chorus girl, a Sphinx without a mystery. Sorry if this disappoints. No thanks, I haven't touched a drop for three years. Here's Tony. Give it to him; he's got to rewrite the show tonight for the Sunday performances--just one of our difficulties with your pleasant Boston blue laws...
...most satisfactory thrill I ever got out of the game was the year Vic Kennard beat Yale with his drop kick. After Kennard booted the goal, we couldn't advance farther up the field than our own 20-yard line and Yale was constantly threatening to score. With one minute left to play and the Elis seemingly certain to score, Sprague of Harvard got off a punt that went over the Yale quarterback's head and carried 80 yards down the field. With so little time left, Yale couldn't possibly score, and the game was ours...
After deep study I find that Yale's Rankin' players will attempt to drop enough Nikkles in the slot to register a Blue victory, but the Curtins will fall and the esteemed Caseymen will win by the score of 12-7. Game will be close, but Casey will get to the Root of the matter. I repeat, a 12-7 victory for Harvard...
...back; he will eat his box lunch in Mallinckrodt, where the rest of his day is passed; he will then return to spend the evening over work for any or all of his four courses, or in preparing for one of the frequent science course quizzes, and will finally drop into bed with the loud ticks of the alarm clock beating on his weary and tortured brain. On the other hand, there are men who refuse to sacrifice all for science. Although they do an amount of work which would be considered satisfactory in most other fields, in Chemistry...