Word: jam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Certainly a row is pending in Congress over these recommendations, and it is exceedingly dubious whether any action will be taken as the closing legislative jam in Congress grows...
...freshman year must prepare men to get the most out of the three years which follow it, which are really what we mean by the college education proper. The freshman year is frankly the year of training, and we try to jam the transition from school to college into one year in order that each student may have three years of college work of a university character...
...Poetry itself is listed for discussion this afternoon, when Professor Elton takes up Horace in Comparative Literature 29. There is something very satisfying, too, about going into Sever 17 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. To jam with hundreds in the morning through a narrow door is merely academic at best, but to enter Sever in such dreadful solitude as this is aesthetic...
Round and round they went; McNamara took the lead, held it for hours. Then, out of a jam of swirling pedals, Coburn and Petri flashed, lapped the field, replaced McNamara. The semihysterical incidents that accompany all endurance contests began to crop up. Three riders were arrested, charged with being "public nuisances." They hurried to court, while their partners kept their places in the flying scrum. A magistrate quite properly dismissed the case...
Admirers in the galleries showered their favorite racers with bunches of roses, lillies, Cattleya orchids. Less gallant spectators munched hot frankfurters or stretched themselves at length and snored sottishly till wakened by the shouts that meant a sprint, a jam or a tumble. Georgetti, the Italian, blew out a tire, catapulted to the track. "He is dead," an individual in a plaid suit asserted solemnly. Georgetti was already riding on. Four riders went down on a corner. One did not get up. It was Bobby Walthour. He had broken his collarbone...