Word: mats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long night seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. The saucepan had rusted and the mat decayed. Toads had nosed their way in. Idly, aimlessly, the swaying shawl swung to and fro. . . . Poppies sowed themselves among the dahlias; the lawn waved with long grass; giant artichokes towered among roses; a fringed carnation flowered among the cabbages; while the gentle tapping of a weed at the window...
...Northern people who conquered the native blacks at the time of the Dutch Discovery in the 17th Century, are now the cheap labor class. They are the burden which the white man has been too weak to carry but not too weak to destroy. At the heart of the mat- ter Author Millin feels that: "The black man is not so different from, as he is inferior to, the white man." For him, she tacitly observes, there is no hope...
...Paso, Tex., Joe Parelli and Billy Hallas, wrestlers of unimportance, climbed into a ring, each prepared to force his opponent's clavicles to the mat. Scuffling for a hold, the two grunters permitted their respective skulls to collide with great force. Unconscious - "even for wrestlers," as able Sports Writer McGeehan put it- both fell and lay where they had fallen. The referee was puzzled; noted that Hallas was resting on his back; Parelli on his side; proclaimed the comatose Parelli winner...
Andover presents formidable opposition to Coach Lewis's first year wrestlers. Last week they shut out the Tufts Freshman team by a score of 24 to 0, gaining four falls. Capra and Flarsheim are the mainstays of the schoolboys, the latter having pinned his man to the mat in 63 seconds in the 125 pound match...
...battle of captains featured the meet, resulting in a victory for Captain Franks of M. I. T. over Captain H.R. Wood '27 of Harvard. In the overtime period the Tech leader held Wood to the mat for the referee's decision...