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...about May 1. The loss of Willcox will be keenly felt both by the track and baseball teams. He was anchor man on the relay team this winter, won the 440 in the Yale meet last year, and has done the quarter in the remarkable time of 43 seconds fist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Willcox to Join Curtiss School | 3/26/1917 | See Source »

...corner of the street put on my glasses, and took out my purse with the intention of buying an evening paper. Thereupon a sturdy fellow who was standing near twirling up his mustache struck me, first over the head with his stick, then in the face with his fist, smashing my glasses and causing the blood to flow freely from my nose. He then took possession of my purse and thrust it in his pocket, calling loudly for the police. An officer of the law happened to be near at hand. He drew near and addressed us in polished tones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adventures of a Pacifist. | 3/5/1917 | See Source »

...dictate to us just how many ships we may send to England, when they must arrive, what port they must sail to, and how they must be painted! As she has no blockade, Germany has absolutely no right to claim control over commerce with England. The German mailed fist has pulled American's nose before, which was shameful; now it has slapped her face, which is unbearable. ROYALL H. SNOW...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turn the Other Cheek? | 2/7/1917 | See Source »

...approve his shaken fist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "We Approve." | 10/31/1916 | See Source »

...wild call for "adequate" preparation, this false "insurance" of peace, if our young men understood the financial and commercial pressure back of this agitation, they would treat with the indignation it deserves this wholesale betrayal of the spiritual ideals and forces of America. Force, the "Big Stick," the mailed fist, the iron hand behind the Law and such cant phraseology of the half-baked thinker are running riot in our press today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/12/1915 | See Source »

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