Word: gales
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...pipkin piped a petulant "pooh" To the garrulous gawp of the gale...
...Suddenly a tremendous gale swept down upon us and for hours we were buffeted and tossed about, while the Greek captain attempted to put back toward Corinth or one of the neighboring sheltered coves. . . . Eventually we were landed on a lonely stretch of shore, 15 miles from the nearest village. There was not a house or protection of any kind to be had. Rain and hail pelted us for hours. . . . At last one of our party walked to the nearest hamlet where there was a telephone, and an automobile was sent out by the Near East Relief at Corinth...
...fiction, essays or articles and must not exceed 4,000 words in length. Manuscripts are to be entered by the heads of the English departments, each of whom may send not more than three manuscripts from the material submitted by his students. The judges are Christopher Merley, Zona Gale and William McLee. The contribution winning first prize will be published in Harper's Magazine and the publishers reserve the right to publish any others...
...dragged a Communist, Signor Maffi, from the Chamber by the hair of his beard. To that arch-stickler for authority, Premier Benito Mussolini, such doings have long seemed intolerable. Last week the cables carried news of a "reform" so ingenious that its high-handedness was passed over in a gale of appreciative laughter...
Coady, Barbee, Chauncey, and Moseley all hoisted 70 yard punts yesterday, but with the tremendous gale carrying the ball the kicks were not remarkable. Coady's punting in the Brown game stamped him as a first-class kicker, and if Maher is able to play Saturday Harvard should be well off in case a punting battle should develop...