Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tale he tells is of a woman who, finding that romance and the fullness of life will never come to knock at her door, ventures out in search of them. Told by a realist, the emphasis would have been laid upon the sordid details, upon the tragedy of starved lives and the futility of effort; told by Mr. Thurston all that is sordid is lost behind the glory of living and the joy that lies therein. Mary Throgmorton, the heroine, is a woman of twenty-seven or eight who has lived all her life a spinster with her spinster sisters...
...schedule has been drawn up. Possibly because Emerson D is being used for some other purpose in the evening, the Faculty has neglected an opportunity to make things even more difficult for the student: it might have held all three examinations in one day, and scored a complete knock...
...Spivak '21 by straight hard hitting in the 155-pound class. H. J. Freedman '23 retained his last year's title by defeating Harry Brenner '23, though the latter showed more aggressiveness. Weatherhead won from Rodewald in the semi-finals of the 160-pound class, scoring the first knock-down by a hard right to the chin. McLeod drew a bye into the finals of the 145-pound class and Daggett won the class title by a hard fighting comeback after being knocked down for 5 counts in the first round. The final bout of the 135-pound class...
...Latin requirements certainly explain why many sub-Freshmen prefer to hole out on the New Haven green rather than hazard the artificial bunkers and traps which guard the course to Cambridge. If we are willing to temper the wind to the handicapped lamb, let us by all means knock down a few bars and allow the relieving breeze to guide him gently to us; if not, why indulge in poignant grief at our own exclusiveness? Let us be honest with ourselves and others--let us retain our artificial barriers and glory in the fact that we have them in order...
...team-mate of almost equal power. This trio, with Gehrke kicking and making long gains, Carnegie showing splendid form in a broken field, and Jenkins plunging, bade fair to surpass the best hopes of the coaches. Early season injuries, however, deprived the team of Carnegie and Gehrke, while a knock in Thursday's scrimmage with the Second Team put out W. K. Greene, one of the substitutes laboriously developed to fill the holes...