Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale-Harvard game last season as am getting so old that I can't set still all P. M. looking at nothing and not get nervous but a few of my practally numerous boys has told me that the johnny of old Harvard cracked the blue of old John Eli by a quaint fancy, namely they had a man name Gus Buell playing defensible full back on there nine and finely a ball was kicked to same and he catched it and run with it. The usual procedure in football as I have come to understand...
With all the nervous preparation that precedes the youngest daughter's a debut, Harvard is decorating the house--stringing advantageous lanterns and fabricating white fountains in exciting places. The Yard is rapidly losing its staid respectability and assuming the artificial glamor which distant relatives and more distant story-writers expect of it. And the Seniors, most of whom have too much to do at present any way, are losing many valuable hours on tours of inspection, on discussing the whys and hows of the water system. The bandstand is as yet in too embryonic a state to attract attention...
...this material the Boston Stock Company seemed, somehow, to move with less than usual skill. Miss Mason as Joan did some excellent work in the scence where she is supposed to be under great nervous strain, but on the whole the acting lacked that sureness of touch which the play demands if it is to be lifted out of the commonplace. The characterization is not subtile, but neither is it obvious; careful handling of the parts is essential to a good effect. As Peter, Miss Goad's voice is much against her, and her portrayal...
Charles Leonard Bouton '96, Professor of Mathematics at the University since 1898, died Monday at his home, 9 Avon St. His death came as the result of an illness lasting several months, due to nervous affection of the spine...
Because of the expectations aroused by the speed standard set at the beginning of the Conference, the delegates have been working under a nervous pressure not altogether conducive to careful deliberation. They are subjected to this pressure by the publicity of the proceedings; they are daily made aware of the desire of the press for news of progress; but they know they must not allow themselves to be hurried in reaching decisions that are going to affect the destiny of nations...