Word: liven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contests in punting, drop-kicking, passing and other fundamentals of the game will liven up the practice. All men will be eligible to compete for the Graduates Kicking Trophy, which annually goes to the man who wins punting honors in spring. Besides this medals will be given for winners in other contests...
...past CRIMSON-Lampoon ones have been. I'll never forget the number of times I've ridden an old bicycle to those annual diamond debates of the editors, through all kinds of weather and in every condition. In days gone by, a keg of beer used to liven up these ball games, and nowadays I miss it. The kegs used to sit right out in the middle of the field, and at the access of any player or players at all times...
Thoroughly angry by now, the Crimson man determined to republish both paragraphs with a fitting retort. He thought and thought. He did not stop to consider that many a contribution like that of "Manufacturer" is composed or suggested by many a scheming magazine editor to liven up his page and cause comment. He quite forgot the Crimson's traditional suavity in the face of minor absurdities. He boiled and boiled, and boiled his anger down to a single devastating headline, which later appeared above the two paragraphs reprinted on the Crimson's editorial page...
Tonight is the Junior Promenade. The class of 1926 and its chosen partners will swing to the rhythmic measures that once more liven Memorial. Once more will the dusty crannies and long-shadowed nooks reecho to light laughter and the patter of satin slippers on a polished floor. To each son of Harvard, the Prom--the prom of his own class--comes but once in a lifetime. But Mem has seen many--Mem has witnessed many a class at its revelry. Perhaps this is the basis of a warmer hold on old graduates than the memory of the numerous meals...
...goes the bell. Out of bed leaps the public. While the public yawns and stretches, a cheery, conversational gentleman in Newark tells his "early birds" that it is time for their morning exercises. He cracks a small joke or two "to liven things up" and, to be even more amusing, uses the studio props-"crickets"' and other noise-making contraptions - to represent creaking joints and splitting pajama legs. The command is given, a piano strikes up, the conversational gentleman barks out the count, mixing in banter and joviality...