Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year Japan has begun again to withdraw into its hermit shell. English signs have been taken down. American films have been banned. Cabarets have been closed. Foreign clothes have become taboo for Japanese women. Even baseball has been Japanofied, with Japanese phrases substituted for such terms as "home run " "foul" and "kill the umpire" and with all bats made of bamboo. But last week Japan's xenophobes ran into a linguistic stone wall. Trying to enforce a new language law, designed to purify Japanese of foreign words, authorities found that English words had become deeply embedded in the language...
After the rest period the Elis rushed ahead until they held a 35-29 lead. Foul shots by Fenigan and current captain Frannie Simpson narrowed the margin to three points and Ed Buckley and Bill Wobber led the final attack which gave Harvard a 40-36 ascendancy...
Famed is Johnny Berdan's course in Daily Themes. Each morning, five mornings a week, generations of Yale men have dropped their themes in a box outside Professor Berdan's foul-smelling office. The door is always open and Professor Berdan, smoking an overpowering Latakia tobacco in a meerschaum pipe loves to invite his students in, insist that they smoke a strong Cuban cigaret, talk to them for hours on end. He makes it a point to read every theme (200 a week) himself. In class he rips the themes to pieces, likes to make his students angry...
...confine itself to pot shots from far out on the floor or hurried one-handers from bad angles. Harvard took 78 shots to Yale's 68 during the course of the evening but was never able to get the Blues on the run and force them into committing fouls. Four chances from the foul line were all that the Crimson had to show for the entire game, while the Elis were cashing...
...Crimson. Third, in this way Crimson started the avalanche of yellow, stupid, and half-obscene publicity in which the super-sensate and silly ideas of the reporters were ascribed to me. Fourth, few days ago Crimson added to these steps an impudency of reproduction of the picture of the foul imagination of the Click...