Word: lock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Episcopal churchmen tell of how Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, Bishop of Southern Ohio, lately made a visitation in one of his parishes. Getting out of his automobile he carefully locked its doors. "Don't bother to lock your car, Bishop," said the senior warden. "We're all honest around here." Sharply retorted Bishop Hobson: "Oh, no, you're not! You've been using your missionary money to pay your coal bill...
...have quite definite information that the Japanese have put 130,000 men in Manchuria, plus 110,000 or 115,000 troops of the Manchukuo Army and 12,000 Russian White Guards. . . . We have barred our frontier with a lock of steel and concrete strong enough to resist the sharpest teeth. . . . We fear no comparison with an enemy in tanks and aviation...
...were defeated by a close score by the Columbia University matmen last Friday night, and tied a strong Princeton team on its first road trip of the year on Saturday evening. The Columbia team scored a 16-14 victory while the Princeton meet resulted in a 14-14 dead-lock...
...waved the finger and pushed back the upturned rim of his tan fedora revealing a stray black lock glued to his moist forehead. "Get a summons? Sure I got a summons. But I'm not going to see the commissioner. I've got no business with him. I'm a busy man. I've got no time to see him. I've got no business with him." Jabbing his finger at the inquisitor, Mr. Samuels emphasized the latter point, intimating that if the commissioner wished to satisfy his curiosity he could do so, but at 30a Boylston...
...crack middle-distance runner, Princeton's Bill Bonthron. Like Cunningham, he is most famed as a miler, but they never raced together. Bonthron amazed the sport world in the Princeton-Cornell v. Oxford-Cambridge meet last July when he ran close second to Oxford's Jack Love lock in a record-breaking mile, then stepped out and won the half-mile...