Word: fester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mingles, Hurt best Avery of Dartmouth, Gilkey Harty of Dartmouth, Fester of Dartmouth beat John Palfrey, snow of Dartmouth best Chet Legg, Wheaton of Dartmouth beat Jack Sterwart, and Hill Muther of Harvard beat Hill of Dartmouth...
...savage does not try to understand the mechanics of magical transmissions, but it seems obvious to him that objects once in contact retain a mystic affinity. Thus he believes that if his spear has wounded an enemy who escaped, he can make the wound fester by thrusting the spearpoint into a fire. He must take extreme care in disposing of his hair cuttings, his nail parings, his spittle and his excrement lest these things which remain a vital part of him fall into hostile hands. More abstruse forms of wizardry he claims to know nothing about, pointing out reasonably that...
Pass throwing and receiving were stressed by the new coach and every available candidate was give a chance along these lines. As in yesterday's session, Harlow divided the men into groups under his assistants, Mike Palm, Rae Crowther, and Wes Fester, and then shifted his own supervision from one bunch to another every few minutes in order to keep personal check on all that is happening in Briggs Cage...
...French picked out the worst block in his holdings and ecstatically presented it to Mr. Jones as a worthy subject for clearance. His choice was "Lung Block," so called because of its high tuberculosis mortality rate. On it lived 650 families. In its backyards were seven jakes. On this fester Mr. French proposed to build a low-cost housing project. Mr. Jones agreed to do business, and RFC lent 85% of the required...
...startling in its originality; nevertheless; it is interesting, and piques the intelligence through its violence. "A Housewife Looks at Advertising" is an article of the same class, though on a subject not quite so hackneyed; due of course, to the dependence of most periodicals on their advertising this fester has received little treatment. The only fault of the discussion in question is that it tends to disregard the more glaring flaws in modern advertising, and in general, to attack the problem with an inept touch which leaves the reader with little doubt that the work is really that...