Word: foule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room, a long, bare hall set off by iron wickets from its library, was packed last week when fat, jolly Professor Neilsen walked in without a guard. He found his listeners most interested in aviation and weather forecasting. He had to translate "cyclonic and anticyclonic disturbances" into "fair and foul weather,' but went away with the opinion that 20 or 30 of his listeners had "very high college intelligence." Said he: "There was no difference in talking to them and in talking to a group of college freshmen...
...this point, Don Comfort, bulky Crimson guard, found the hoop three times in a row from half way out, and followed up with a foul shot. After another gratis shot scored by Gene Merry, B. U. was frightened into freezing the ball, which they did successfully until the final gun. The Freshman cagers defeated Andover 29-14 Saturday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building. At the conclusion of the game Leavitt White of Plainfield, New Jersey, was elected captain of the 1937 squad...
...causes of the poor showing on Wednesday night was the reckless abuse of the foul rule by the Crimson, Harvard committed 21 fouls...
...Museum. Not Death as in the silent senseless repose of the dead, but Death hanging over slowly departing life; not Death which comes suddenly, mercifully to the well-born for whom it is the apoplectic end of surfeit, but Death which racks life from the poor with retching hunger, foul disease, the constant ache of physical exhaustion. Death is here no surcease but a prolonged torture. The artist conveys the sense of this by unnaturally hollowed and skull-like faces, by hands which are bony in spite of their muscularity; the quality and effect of this she draws into...
...United States, and gave him his Ph. D., both teacher and pupil were called to head State universities-Suzzallo to Washington, Jessup to Iowa. Both men proved able administrators, energetic money-getters. Each raised his school mightily in size and prestige. In the process each once ran foul of his State's governor. President Suzzallo's feud with Washington's Hartley cost him his job (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). The Iowa legislative committee which in 1931 investigated the State university on charges of maladministration gave President Jessup a thorough whitewash. More than adequate balm for his political...