Word: freak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freak...
...Employes' investments" are up from $20,357,783 to $23,459,389. "Accrued expenses and taxes" have declined from $37,253,092 to $28,122,715. "Amortization of patents" was $183,028 in 1923 and $185,138 last year. Meanwhile "surplus"-the freak item of the whole statement-has increased from $442,041,081 to the colossal sum of $542,476,496-a jump of over $100,000,000 in a single year...
There was, as always, one freak report. This would have it that the landing was permitted by the defense as part of its strategy and that, immediately after the landing, the Black aircraft annihilated the attacking fleet. But after one startling headline in such eminent papers as the Boston Transcript and The New York World, this freak was withdrawn from public view, without apology...
Rain, home runs, errors, and freak baseball were all mixed up together in the game on Saturday which the Crimson baseball team took from Amherst, 9 to 1. A drizzling downfall during the first few innings gave way to perfect baseball weather, and the slugfest which the game had promised to become was at the same time switched to a pitchers' duel of sorts...
...there were one point on which I should quibble, it would be the club system, but I regard it as too unimportant to matter. The Harvard club system is a strange creature. Evolution put the dinornis and the plesiosaur down and piled mountains above them. This other freak with gold feet may yet join them in innocuous extinction. But whether or not, the great mass of Harvard men will come and go and scarcely heed. Harvard's democracy is untrammeled, but it flourished anywhere at Harvard but in a clubroom...