Word: hollowing
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...Willis boom finally became a hollow frogskin when three other names-Lowden, Curtis, Watson-were given out as unofficial "second choice" men for whom Willis delegates might eventually vote. This made Ohio a microcosm of Republicanism all over the country-Hoover v. the Field. Candidate Dawes had the self-respect to forbid the Willis people to include his name on their auxiliary roster, saying he was still for his friend, Candidate Lowden...
...joined three of his vacuum tubes in tandem and in the connecting necks placed hollow metal cylinders. From a tungsten filament cathode in the first tube, 300,000 volts of electricity shot cathode rays into the first metal cylinder, which functioned as anode to the first and cathode to the second. There 300,000 more volts kicked the speeding electrons into the next similarly acting cylinder, where 300,000 more volts gave a final kick. The rays cascaded out of the apparatus at 175,000 miles per second-almost as fast as light, 350,000 times faster than a rifle...
...present critical attitude of students toward scholastic standards. But, whatever one's opinion of these standards, they nevertheless exist; and the fact that Phi Beta Kappa must conform to them does not mean that it approves of them. Mr. Eastman's rejection of what seems to him a hollow honor is praiseworthy enough morally; but it seems that he is confusing the empty titles so much beloved these days with a distinction that is real. It is to be hoped that his action will not be the prologue to a general lowering of the respect in which Phi Beta Kappa...
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...