Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Boyer's students had a holiday as he was formally, tardily inaugurated president. The first inaugural speaker sounded off at 10 a. m. Taking time out only to parade and eat, more speakers felicitated, expounded, exhorted, opined through day & night until 11:45 p. m. Up then rose President Lee Paul Sieg of the University of Washington to say the last word. Said he: "The people of Oregon can certainly take...
...Sure they eat," said Promoter Platt...
Anticipating the first Yale hockey game, Dunster men have arranged to dance informally while they eat Saturday evening...
Judo performers wear trousers and jackets. Sumo wrestlers in action wear only a loin cloth and, for bravado, bits of stiff rope. Since weight and girth with which to crowd an adversary out of the ring count for more than muscle, sumo performers eat gigantic meals and occasionally reach monstrous proportions. Biggest among current sumo celebrities is Dewagatake who, a pygmy compared to oldtime sumo giants, stands 6 ft. 8 in., weighs 350 lb. His girth is only 3½ ft. to Champion Tama-nishiki...
...briefly clouded by the raven wing of grief. Hsieh is called off to the wars in the Western Regions and, like a Chinese Penelope, Precious Stream puts in the next 18 years waiting in a cave for him to return. When he does, the Wang family is made to eat humble pie and husband & wife live happily ever after. As with The Yellow Jacket a generation ago and the Mei Lan-fang repertory in 1930, Lady Precious Stream is supposed to charm U. S. spectators by presenting the Chinese theatre in all its childish ingenuousness. The characters tap their foreheads...