Word: lockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Several rooms which are occupied by students who were away last night have not yet been entered. The janitor had gone home at the time of the hold-up and no pass keys could be secured. The belief that the fugitive ducked into some unlocked room and snapped the lock after him was still rife among many of the occupants of Matthews late last night...
...entirely fanciful, but I don't think there is anything like the saving of energy that they advertise, nor do I think they'll ever do a two mile course 25 lengths faster than they do now. The most important of these inventions is the sliding oar lock which is supposed to give an absolutely straight pull through. The idea is undoubtedly sound, but it is not likely to be widely adopted. The other inventions in the pneumatic seats and moving footrests mean little...
...other undulation at Yale was part of undergraduatedom's persistent demand for liberty. In the light of President Angell's observations it might have been interpreted as rebellion against "lock-stepping," or as an example of the things college men have time to get excited about when supplied with easy work and long vacations, or as an expression of "social maturity." In any case the recrudescence of Yale's war on compulsory chapel was no new phenomenon...
...still labor in too large degree under the lock step system, which makes substantially the same demand on the bright boy as upon his less able companion...
Perhaps Helen Wills is keeping a diary of what she does these sunny days at Cannes. It is rumored that she makes entries every evening in a large notebook bound in red morocco and fitted with a silver clasp-lock, whose contents a U. S. publisher has contracted to bring out in the fall. If Miss Wills is really writing a diary, her many admirers are likely to read it more for its probable charm than in the expectation of finding out anything new about her, for the newspapers have reported her activities so elaborately that what she puts...