Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Running in this meet against Maryland and the University of Virginia in a one-mile relay, the Harvard team led until the final lap when O'Neil making a gallant bid for victory, fell, and Maryland took the race in hollow fashion...
...Greece, a helot trotted down to a river marsh to gather kalamoi, hollow tubular stalks of grass. Each kalamos he whittled to a tapering point and handed with ink to his master, who forthwith wrote out the accounts of his battles and of his business deals...
...that alone are the chosen vessels in which reposes the spirit of Lenin - in Russia Lenin is, in sober truth, a God. In his name Trotsky will certainly plot and and perhaps conquer. After all "Lenin & Trotsky" is a couplet revered by millions to whom "Lenin & Stalin" rings unfamiliar, hollow strange...
...reformer, a church worker and a prohibitionist. Only last week the shareholder had read with satisfaction an account of S. S. Kresge's $500,000 gift to the Anti-Saloon League. Accordingly, he was sure that the alleged misbehavior, although it had remained undenied, was merely a hollow defamation...
...reader it must seem that the long-continued offering of praise and censure and criticism upon the altar of the post-war generation is drawing at last to a close. Companionate marriage may succeed student suicide as a material for headlines, but all such topics begin to have a hollow ring; and when, as in the present instance, they are ignored, and youth is discussed by a competent and seasoned observer, the result is no revelation, but only a personal and far from sensational reaction to a far from sensational state of affairs...