Word: flick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long been an intimate of the school's instructors and students, a patient listener-in on all sorts of architectural talk. For the past year he played pinochle every Sunday night with Instructor Wilson. Last week, as George Archambeau went about his dusting, he gave a proud extra flick to a new bust in the Fogg entrance hall. It was himself, modeled during pinochle evenings, now set up vis-a-vis to William Crowninshield Endicott...
Control of V. S. rested last week with famed German Industrialist Dr. Friedrich Flick. Recently he has virtually mortgaged the control to certain Dutch banks. Last week Patriot Flick sold his remaining interest to the Fatherland for "much less" than the French have been offering, received a mere 100 million marks ($23,820,000). The Dutch end of the deal was quietly arranged. For good or evil, Chancellor von Papen must go down in history as the man who while absent in Switzerland brought under German Government control last week more than two-fifths of the Fatherland's production...
...first and second rounds were about even In the third, Sharkey's left hand, quick and dangerous as a tiger's paw, be gan to flick Schmeling's nose. It nicked more frequently in the fourth and fifth, jarring Schmeling's jaw, stabbing his right eye. Schmeling began to come in more savagely in the sixth and seventh which was just what Sharkey, a smart counter-fighter, wanted. He moved away, boxing beautifully, stiffening his left arm against Schmeling's head, shifting so skilfully that Schmeling, in his eagerness to land a solid punch, several...
...Graduate School of Education the following eight scholarships were announced: University Scholarship, Robert Flick Rutherford 1Ed, of Tarentum, Pennsylvania; Phi Delta Kappa Scholarship, Roy Arthur Price 1Ed, of Chicago, Illinois; and six Faculty Scholarships--Eugene Burns GEd, of Los Angeles, California; Raven Orwell Dodge 1Ed, of Lowell; Roy Arthur Price 1Ed., of Chicago, Illinois; John Watson Murray Rothney 2Ed, of Fairhaven; Herbert Lewis Swan, Jr. 1Ed., of Winthrop; and Howard Carleton Seymour 2Ed., of Watertown, Connecticut...
...caught up with his reach and the play regrettably wanders far a field into the less stimulating realm of force. The perennial vivacity of Helen Hayes does much to propel a vehicle that in spots lacks lubrication, and Henry Stephenson gives the wheels of comedy many a timely flick of the finger...