Word: knits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sleeve of suffering humanity is badly ravelled; and serious and sustained effort is urgently needed to knit it together. Since November 11, 1918, the politicians and diplomats have tried to do the knitting and they have not been successful. I am not blaming them nor are the reasons for their failure relevant. The fact that they have failed in the important and vital thing. It is high time to bring to bear the influence of the spirit of sportsmanship--fair play for all and a sporting chance for the underdog--as a World-Welder. I need not labour the point...
...bonds which unite it to my own have been knit together, as you recall, in times of common trial and sacrifice. You may be sure that the memory of these times is ever present to my mind as to yours. I also regret that several questions of importance to our two countries have not yet been settled. Like you, I will do my utmost to solve them by friendly agreement and to our mutual advantage...
...earliest games with Yale, on November 12, 1881, the records speak of a "cold driving storm which soon wet the players to the skin," in spite of the fact that "the Yale team all wore long blue caps knit like a stocking with a blue tassel...
...monkey. The incisions are made, and one of the monkey's gonads is sliced into six pieces thin enough for the interstitial cells of the patient quickly to interpenetrate them. In earlier operations Voronoff had failures because the transplanted portions were too thick and died before they could knit up with the human glands. Within a few weeks the new tissue becomes continuous with the old, and its hormones begin their beneficial flow. Blood pressure diminishes, sight improves, metabolism is intensified, muscles regain their spring, and new hair grows. Voronoff told the surgeons that a great park is being constructed...
...Association has great potential power. As it now stands, it is weak," declared H. N. Pratt '24, who is representing the business department of the Crimson at the conference. "The question before the convention this year is how to knit the organization closer together so that its inherent possibilities may be brought out and utilized to their full. To this end a policy of making advertising rates and commissions uniform and of establishing standards of cooperation between papers that are members of the association with the possibility of organizing a standing committee on business administration will be considered, with...