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Word: drown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since the existence of football as a University enterprise is not compatable with the best interests of the Nation during the present crisis, let us drown our regrets and, after the Kaiser has been securely caged, we will again take up successfully our yearly task of taming the Tiger and the Bulldog...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS ADJOURNED. | 11/1/1918 | See Source »

...those who sat through the game in the Stadium last Saturday and saw the Eli eleven outplay and outfight our Freshmen, the result of the Informal vs. Newport Naval Reserves game came as a pleasant tonic to drown out their sorrows. The Informals lost, 14--0, but they put up a game which places them in the football Hall of Fame. With the possible exception of the Navy Yard team here in Boston, the Newport squad is the best in the country. With a line made up of men like Schlacter of Syracuse, and Callahan and Black of Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INFORMALS | 11/20/1917 | See Source »

...would give a veiled compliment to their sex by calling your country "she". What one of you is there who dares deny the open insult of Germany's defiance? What pacifist would have saved his own life on the Lusitania, to let a child and mother drown? And yet you say "life before honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life Before Honor? | 2/6/1917 | See Source »

...Drown '84, of Cambridge, will be the leader at a discussion meeting of the St. Paul's Society in Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. The subject for discussion will be "What is Meant by a Personal God." The meeting will be open to all members of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Paul's Society to Hear Dr. Drown | 3/22/1916 | See Source »

Gradually, however, as chapel regulations became less harsh, disturbances from this cause became less frequent and less frequent. New that chapel is entirely voluntary a wholesome respect and reverence for the short services which starts in marked contrast to the foot shufillings and speechings which used to drown out the words of the preacher, has grown up among the undergraduates

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAPEL, PAST AND PRESENT | 6/13/1914 | See Source »

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