Word: fared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place a huge pork roast was the kingpin of the fare. What if it were not thoroughly done? Those Michigan boys are too excited to care. Many ate, tearing at the flesh, gulping it with oversweet coffee. At the game the Illinois and Michigan elevens lined up. Whistle. Plop! The kickoff. In ten minutes "Red" Grange made four touchdowns. The Michigan spectators felt sickish. More kickoffs. Touchdowns for this team, for that. Loud and long the cheers. Here and there someone on the Michigan stands grimaced. His stomach griped him. Pork is a heavy thing to eat, burdensome when...
Team B did not fare quite as well as the University team that year, but it closed its season with the loss of but one out of nine meets, and ten out of 45 matches. Last year's University record was still more impressive than that of the previous year. The racquet wielders, again under the leadership of Captain W. P. Dixon '25, began its second championship season with a spurt which carried them through their schedule without the loss of a single meet, and which netted them the state and national championship. This year, the team lost but three...
...teapot small enough for this tempest. Mutual understanding seems to be circumscribed by a menu card. Be it admitted that great and holy causes are at stake on both sides and that "all is fair in love and war"; yet Mars would hardly stoop to wield a bill of fare...
...Commissioner?" "No, I have not." "Will you be here tomorrow?" "Yes." He hurried down the stairs with a policeman chasing him. In the street the policeman caught up: "Mr. Commissioner, won't you use your Department car?" "No." He hurried to a taxi cab. "I'm waiting for another fare," said the driver. A detective whispered to him, "That's the new Police Commissioner." The driver changed his mind; off went the cab with Mr. McLaughlin...
...citizens it numbers 5,000 boys and girls who are students at the College of the City of New York. Every morning these students have to get up and hurry to the subway and travel many miles to their classes. The amount they spend a year on car fare alone would pay the interest on two million dollars. They waste their time, strength, money, in the subway. So said public-spirited citizens last week, leading up to the statement that Brooklyn needs a college...