Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every new or seeming truth we meet to the edge of folly. It is folly to conclude . . . that there are no standards of good usage." The dean thought that good usage varied with time & place. At a football game he had heard a man ridiculed for talking about a "foul" when he meant a "penalty." Said Pollock: "The English language is used in one way in formal writing, in another way in pulpit oratory ... in the courtroom ... in private conversation . . in the ballpark [and] the public forum . . . The students need to learn the appropriate word in the appropriate level...
...Crimson played a rough, fast game. Tech had gift foul tries time and time again but missed consistently...
...action was possible. Republicans and Democrats alike knew that the stands they took on anti-inflationary measures might well decide the 1948 elections. Most Democrats, hoping that the President had been politically smart in suggesting a return to rationing and wage-price ceilings, kept cannily quiet. Many Republicans cried "Foul." Said Senator Robert Taft: "This is the police state condemned by the President himself only a month ago. This is the end of economic freedom." Other Republicans rebuked Candidate Taft for seeming to represent himself as spokesman for the party...
...Fouling Practice. But for all his dignity, Tom Dewey also had his sleeves rolled up. He had given Stassen a haughty punch in the nose for the needling which the Stassen forces had been giving him. He had authorized an aide to state: "The Governor never criticizes other members of his party publicly. He does not follow the practice of those who foul their own nests...
Potter also scored the first Crimson goal of the game when the referee called a tripping penalty on left wing Willy Dawson. Dawson would have scored, however, even if the referee had not called the foul. Princeton got the equalizer five minutes later when Ernie Savage hooked in a goal from center-forward...