Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dean of the Harvard Law School, James M. Landis, is a versatile entertainer. His favorite trick is to sit atop a quart milk bottle with legs extended, reach to the right and pick a match off the floor, to the left for a cigarette, bring them both to his lips and light them without falling off the bottle."--News item...
Powerful factors have been at work in the last twelve months toward a reconsideration of the ill-favored oath law. President Conant and various representatives of Harvard have taken the floor against the principle of the oath, which stifles that free consideration of current problems which is the kernel of true education...
...rest of team played way below their capabilities, and when you add to that the facts that Columbia was playing as good ball as they have all season and that the Crimson was plying on the other fellow's court, and on a slippery floor at that, you get the 38-25 score as the result. The ball handling was sloppy, passes were too low or missed entirely, the defense was far from impregnable. Harvard sunk the first goal, but from that time on the Light Blue was never headed...
Outplaying the visitors in every department the Columbia Lions smashed the Crimson Varsity quintet to the floor 38-25 in New York last night...
...that offered themselves to the Bureau scientists on the second floor of Hemingway Gymnasium as human guinea pigs, only one was a hopelessly glare-blind individual. Two of the men were half blind, and one fellow, in a brown suit, could see the man on the miniature highway as clearly as a far-seeing child of six. He said he was a Senior...