Word: duck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed Norris resolution, to do away with the "lame duck" government, has passed the Senate by a vote of 63 to 6. The "lame duck" government is a venerable institution of long years' standing--that uncomfortable period in the administration when, in spite of the fact that both the new Congress and the new President, have been elected, the old officers still control the national affairs. The period is, in other words, the interregnum when the defeated President is still the chief executive. Someone noticed the futility of this system and the Norris Resolution came into being. It provides that...
...some revision was necessary. The present system of regulated choice of electives, substituted instead, has not so far accomplished the desired change, but, grafted to it the tutorial system, still too new to be fairly judged, holds the greatest promise for the future. There will always be the "lame duck" referred to in the Advocate as well as the "high-average" student, and the tutor is the one representative of organized scholarhood who can go among both with any reasonable chance of success...
...Freshman players were divided up into four groups: backs, quarterbacks, ends, and linesmen. They were sent through the usual preliminary drill of tossing medicine balls, starting, falling on the ball, and "duck waddling". No attempt has yet been made to grade the players and the division into first and second squads will not come until next week...
Coach Campbell supervised the other backfield men. He repeated yesterday's punting practice and later sent a few players to join the quarterbacks in trying drop-kicks. W. B. Snow '18, the regular coach of the linesmen, gave his squad a stiff drill in the "duck waddle" and charging. V. F. Likins '18, a member of the University squad in 1916 and 1917, coached the ends yesterday. He will assist Coach Campbell during the next two weeks...
...education; why, at the present time, is it not absorbing capital usefully in the wages of mechanics and the purchase of materials; and why, above all, at the present time, is not an every growing flying public taking to the air for purposes of business and pleasure as a duck takes to the water or, more appositely, as a bird takes wing? These questions are asked vainly by those who have grown up in and with the science of aviation and whose outlook into the future is practical and optimistic and robust as will all true pioneers...