Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those rare protests against the brutal carrying out of specialization which, on the whole, is characteristic of our educational system today. What sort of a man is it who stuffs himself with useless information? Mr. Gay gives a list of men equipped with "out-at-the-elbow, down-at-the-heel sort of minds" including Herodotus, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Scott, Anatole France and others...
...protest against the injustice of a system which makes it possible for an unknown at one step to reach popular fame. Young "also-rans form street-corner indignation meetings against the injustice of all plebiscites and all judges. Nevertheless authors, a old and young, unite in striving to out-elbow each other in the shuffle for decorated popularity...
...country. This is very natural, because first-class results demand that a man possess a steel, sinewy, supple body. Shoulders, stomach, thighs, and calf also undergo a tearing strain. The hardest trial is demanded of that part of the body where lies the javelin thrower's soul, namely the elbow...
Although L. C. Larrabee was hit on the elbow by a pitched ball and forced to leave the game, he will probably play today against the State Street Trust Company nine. Coach Slattery will probably use a great many substitutes, in order to give as many players as possible a chance to show their worth...
...Percival," asked Adolphus Smith-Blythe, the big m an of the College, captain of the Tiddledewink Team, Chairman of the "Committee to Make Freshmen Fool at Home," etc., as he sat sipping his afternoon cup of tea in the Union, the push button for the bell boy at his elbow, "What's the news today...