Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that a Nassau eleven invading the Stadium should come jerseyed in mystery. Players who discard crutches for cleats and clutch impossible passes, to fall across the goal line are no less permanent a part of the Princeton travelling equipment than the Tiger water bottles. Plays that have ruffled the grass only behind high board fences of New Jersey are all ready to be revealed to a crowded Stadium this afternoon. And of no other team is the truism so true that predictions based on previous scores are like houses built upon sands...
...Mclancsian department of the Pacific Island collection, an assortment of 80 war clubs, most of them previously stored in the basement for lack of display space, are now on exhibition. Grass skirts, hand looms, and shark-teeth spears 16 feet long are also being shown. Some dancemasks made of human skulls, gum, earth, and lime, are a unique feature of the collection...
...Harvard Square," he said, "was originally a crossroad, marking the intersection of the Brighton, Arlington, and Cambridgeport highways. It had a small grass plot in the center that was called a common, but was used most frequently as a parking space by farmers trying to sell loads...
...modern commerce, memorialize it for seven days, wherever possible, by living in thatched huts, as did their ancestors on pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Deprived of an outdoor areaway, ghetto-crowded Jews have been known to rip holes in their roofs, holes which they covered with corn stalks or twists of grass. On the last day of the feast, Simkhat Torah, the yearly reading of the" Law is completed. Then there is a riot of rejoicing which the Mishnah, Talmudic commentary on Mosaic Laws, reflects in the phrase: "He who has not seen the joy of the libations of Tabernacles has never...
...Could Walt Whitman have spent four years at Harvard and then have written 'Leaves of Grass'? Impossible." Mr. William W. Ellsworth, veteran publisher and until a few years ago president of the Century Company, advanced this question and the emphatic answer to it in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter...