Word: knowes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard, to be sure, is none too powerful. The Crimson has a strong running and lateral passing attack, but lacks the forward passing threat that is essential to make the running offense a distinct success. It is fairly easy to come up and stop running plays when you know your opponents can't complete forwards...
...paper does not pretend to be a mirror of undergraduate thought. Every Harvard man knows, or comes to know, that there is no such thing at Harvard as composite undergraduate thought. The CRIMSON avowedly expresses the attitude only of its own editors..." September...
...Abolishing the Yale football rally is abolishing a tradition. One might feel a little guilty about that, did he not know that the tradition has been soured by unspontaneity. The game is where it has always been, on the knees of the gods and the linemen. And at the needful moment, in the Yale Bowl, it will be for the cheering section to show that Harvard's old and inextinguishable pride in the Harvard team has lost nothing more than a blurring anachronism." November...
...Most teachers used methods which they themselves considered antiquated, and taught subjects which they would have admitted not one in a hundred of their pupils would ever need to know. Boys and girls bursting with vitality and the exuberance of youth were cramped for hours into set positions, while by a sort of water-cure process knowledge was pumped into them from books duller than a doctor's dissertation in philosophy...
Item, symmetry: for earrings or a single pendant, the teardrop pearl is still fashionable, but for necklaces, bracelets, and tiaras, perfect sphericity is required. Experts know it on sight. Amateurs roll their pearls across a smooth black surface...