Word: knot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With skates on his feet and a tail that twitches nervously, the Tiger at bay in Brooklyn awaits the attack of the University seven. Well may his tail twitch, too, for the veteran conquerors of the Blue plan to experiment in fancy knot tying with that caudal appendage, and to playfully add one more twist to that which the Bulldog gave it a short time...
Although we shall readily respond to any request of the Administration, yet we do not approve the latest measure. Holidays are often welcome, but five in succession and then ten more, on a week, are excessive. To cut the knot into which railroads and fuel have been tied Mr. Garfield demands that all business cease. Without heeding, or else deliberately disregarding the counsel of local administrators, the central head has wildly adopted this scheme. Suddenness intensifies the radicalism or the more, made, apparently, in a desperate attempt to wipe out the ever-increasing fuel difficulties. Though an effort to remedy...
...Teutonic in origin, and managers who have contracted with the Austrian would stand to lose heavily if he were to hold to his rights. We are not yet at war with Austria. His claims would be hard to contest in our courts. He chooses to cut the Gordian Knot and ask all managers to release...
...work, is making plans for the use of 500 boats in all, and men are needed badly. Volunteers for the new boats are necessary at once, and an excellent opportunity is offered members of the University to enroll in the Naval Reserve and to secure positions on powerful 30-knot boats. Men can enlist in units or singly. The units are composed of five men, an ensign, a quartermaster, an engineer and two seamen, but groups of 12 and more men have been organized to man the larger 60 and 90-foot boats. Each unit will be assigned...
...rally will open with a parade and review of all the scouts, of whom there are 2500 in the greater Boston district. Following the parade the events proper will be held, among which will be contests in wall-scaling, fire building, signalling, bridge building, and knot-tieing. There will also be demonstrations of first-aid work, wireless signalling, setting up of temporary encampments and numerous forms of drills. Only the best men from each district will participate in these competitions...