Word: lockings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...extent responsible for loweringmen's standards of right and wrong, especially in the case of impressionable youth. Frequent statements from the juvenile courts show the misdeed to be directly traceably to a recent movie. A boy in Connecticut not long ago caused a train-wreck by picking the switch-lock with a crowbar, a trick learned from the screen. Many young runaways, when caught, admit that their inspiration for the delights of the open road was gleaned from the silversheet...
...Keep the room doors and windows locked!" is the most urgent request that the authorities make. Although the buildings are watched carefully and the "no trespassing" regulations are strictly enforced, sneaks, variously and skillfully disguised, gain entrance frequently and then, as a result of the students' hospitality in leaving their rooms open, make away with whatever is at hand, be it money, as gold watch, or a saxaphone. To use a lock is a sure and simple way of eliminating such robberies...
...beaten, and the floors and paint will be washed without expense to the tenants. Hanging pictures, putting down carpets, etc., if not done by the tenants, must be done, at their expense, by the porters, or by persons employed or approved by the Janitor. Tenants who wish to lock up their closets before leaving Cambridge must arrange with the porters, before June 15, to have the closets properly cleaned...
...system are expected to result from the appointment of Mr. Corderry, changes both in the type of rowing and in the rigging of the Yale shells. Many considered it a step backward, for instance, when Mr. Nickalls reintroduced the thole-pin in the outriggers in place of the lock now in universal use in this country; his insistence on the flat slide has also been criticised...
...quarter. The second Norton Boat Club crew was expected to give the Freshmen a strong fight but one of the men in the club boat shipped his oar in the first few strokes and had to row the rest of the race with his oar loose in the lock. As it was, the West Lynn Boat Club furnished strong opposition, keeping close to the yearlings all the way and fighting for every inch of the length and a quarter which the Freshmen opened up on them. Exeter took third place, two lengths behind the Lynn crew, and the Norton shall...