Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...follows: Under the Empire, the headsman was a professional man, who used his great beheading sword in one hand, holding the handle as one would a dagger with the back of the blade extending back parallel to his forearm. Beheading was done by a single slice with the long blade instead of a chop. For a consideration from the condemned or his friends the headsman would leave a small piece of skin remaining so that the ignominy of complete decapitation was avoided. Cases were reported here headsmen had been persuaded to save the life of the condemned by making...
...loved and cherished for their qualities, I wish to go on record as saying that Boston bulls have the virtues of cleanliness, courage and trim appearance together with unshaken fidelity and are the peers of any fashionable dog that ever eked out an unhappy existence, plastered over with long hair. The cartoonists and a few society folks may enjoy the long-haired pooch, but only his loving heart saves him in my estimation...
...guidance director must be as much an authority on his subject as the professor is on whatever subject he may be discussing. I do feel, however, that the holder of this position should be thoroughly acquainted with the work of the Committee on the Choice of Electives for, as long as Harvard is a liberal arts rather than a vocational college, courses should be selected for ther own value rather than for the possible benefit which they would give in the way of training one for a vocation. This the vocational director must realize in order that...
Holy Cross, long the arch-rival of Crimson nines, will do battle with the University baseball team on Fitton Field, Worcester, this afternoon, in what promises to be one of the season's hardest encounters. Last year Coach Barry's charges captured both contests of, the two-game series, and should make a strong bid to make it three straight today...
...Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. Arthur Gilman, Mrs. James B. Greenough, Mrs. E. W. Gurney, Miss Lilian Horsford and Miss Alice, M. Longfellow. Under less favorable sponsorship and without the firm support of President Eliot of Harvard it would hardly have become firmly established or have survived long...