Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blights more terrible could fall upon the Symphony Halls of the seaboard cities than to deny admittance to the English lecturer, or to thin the great richness of his subject matter by elimination of the educational question. But his contemplative eye should early learn the difference of the American problem, a problem that is at once as great and young and changing as the Manhattan skyscrapers that first greet...
Chinese readers scanned the ideographs and saw in their minds eye a far, high monastery in remote Tibet. They read of how Wu Pei-fu had journeyed thither from China, traveling by wearisome forced marches until he reached the monastery and was welcomed by its Buddhist brotherhood. Even in so remote a place, men know that Marshal Wu Pei-fu was War Lord of Central China prior to his overthrow by the Nationalist Revolution (TIME...
...Rangers skated into the Montreal Forum feeling that it would be hard for them to get going. They were cut up and gashed-Johnson with the lobe of his nose torn through by a skate-point, Bun Cook with a charley-horse, Frank Boucher with a stitch over his eye. They were tired also from the strain of playing before the hostile and unsportsmanlike crowd in Boston which threw garbage and bottles on the ice, hit the referee in the head with bread soaked in near-beer, and kept quiet when the visiting team scored a goal...
Against the heavier Maroons the Rangers lost the first game, 2-0. In the second game each team had a goal when Goalie Chabot of the Rangers was hit in the eye with a puck, taken to the hospital. Coach Lester Patrick, famed defense man in his day, put on the goalie's pads, kept goal for his team, stopped all rushes, was wildly cheered. In the overtime period Johnson passed to Boucher who whipped the puck into the Montreal goal, winning the game 2-1, with two games left to play...
...stroked the Vassar crew. He was wrong in more ways than one. Vassar, famed female college though it is, has no crew. In fact, the only U. S. female college where crew is a major sport is Wellesley, at Wellesley, Mass. Last week Wellesley rowing came into the public eye and the public eye was pleased, for pretty little Maimie Sze, daughter of the Chinese Minister to the U. S., was appointed captain of the freshman crew. No muscled oarswoman she, but the coxswain who steers the boat and shouts out the rhythm loud and strong. Popular, she is also...