Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Magnavox") Johnson, Farmer-Laborite, and a blind man with a German name, U. S. Congressman Thomas D. Schall, Republican nominee. Hot and close was their race...
Countered Judge Talley, upholder of the death penalty, the Chicago trial coming to his mind: "You can't blow hot and cold on this. You can't on one day plead for a man because he is poor, and on the next ask mercy because he is rich and over-educated." He stated that were the death penalty abolished, there would be no possible deterrent to killing, since no criminal feared the pleasant conditions of a jail. In prison, Judge Talley said, ruffians are bedded with a comfort, fed with a largess, that they could never themselves have...
...thirteenth play his teammate takes the ball over for the only score--then you can be sure that that player is a good back. That is what Eddie Cottle did against Georgia on Saturday. He was sent in for Failing in the second half and made things hot, and the Crackers cracked under the strain of his line hitting. He should prove a big asset against Dartmouth and the Army...
...This is the indictment of The Old Dog in the Saturday Evening Post of October 11. Along with much that is complimentary both of the University and the student body, the subtle charge of "cleverness" carries a distinctly derogatory implication. Instead of higher learning Harvard is accused of producing "hot house results", of developing "point-of-pencil knowledge", and high technique in the art of passing examinations. The Old Dog says of the unfinished product: "Most of these fellows were ready with opinions on any conceivable subject. If they had none, they were able to make them...
...expected that the trip this year will follow closely the route of last year's show which included Hot Springs, Virginia, Philadelphia, Washington and New York City...