Word: fathoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlottesville is one of those small towns whose innocuous drowsiness no Northerner can ever quite fathom, and whose charm no New England town can ever quite equal--for a Southerner. Charlottesville is Virginia, and Virginia is Charlottesville. There is no escaping this cycle. Further south, in the Carolinas, the college boys are required to drink a jug of "so'th'n cawn" to prove they are gentlemen and scholars. Ther is no necessity for such measures at the University of Virginia. It is considered an insult even to intimate that a Virginian could not master such a meagre portion...
Hits by Captain Ulysses Lupien and Dick Grondahl together with Bob Gannett's base on balls and a double steal accounted for the Crimson's two tallies in the fifth frame. Otherwise the Varsity failed to fathom Lefty Roper's deceptive hook. The Summary: ab r h po a e Gannett cf 4 1 0 4 0 0 Johns ss 4 0 0 2 3 0 Lupien 1b 4 0 0 10 0 0 Grondahl 3b 4 1 0 1 1 2 Saltz 1b 2 0 1 1 0 0 Hoye rf 4 0 0 3 0 0 Doyle...
...were unable to get by their first round opponents, including MacDonald Deming '37, George M. Goodwin '39, and John G. Palfrey, Jr. '40. Although he holds down the number four berth on the Yardling tennis team, following in the footsteps of his famed sister, Palfrey was unable to fathom the intricacies of the table game...
Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivifies, Fain would I fathom thy nature specific; Loftily poised in the other capacious Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous...
...work of time is something that the mind of man can hardly fathom. This...