Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time the entire team had played together but in spite of the ragged fielding it was able to win a 6-2 victory over Rindge Technical School. The first scheduled game of the season was also a victory, but the seconds were forced to the limit to nose out Andover by a 4-3 score. The mound work was the saving feature of the contest, for the schoolboys were taking advantage of the poor Crimson fielding until Brown, unsupported, gave them but few chances to get on base...
...falters in the effort to prophecy his future. Will the joys of smoking vanish irretrievably with the coming of the knowledge that smoking is undoubtedly beneficial? So perverse is human nature that such a thought is not beyond the limits of sense. The "short stem that fumes beneath the nose"--will it cease to be a companion, eulogized in song and story, and become merely an emblem of duty, coldly disregarded by genius and fool alike? What of the cigarette, the forbidden fruit--and so the more delightful--of school days, the mental enemy and physical friend of college years...
...This is better than any of the Crimson entries have shown up to the present time. Murphy should win second place in the 100-yard event, with Field and de Rham batting for third place with Page, another Eli who has done good time. The best Crimson bet to nose out Comins in the longer dash is Hull, with deRham a possibility for third place over Funk, who scored for the Elis against Princeton 1925 last Saturday...
...regular path to the peerage. Such a system is apparently perfectly workable there and is subject to none of the political shifts which occur. Granting that unfinished plans often look poorly in print, a return to the spoils system to avoid tale-bearing seems like cutting off the nose to spite the face...
...impulse to destroy your fellow caveman, whom you could not lick on the physical merits, by withdrawing to a safe distance and mimicking his personal mannerisms and tone of voice, or exaggerating in a drawing on a cliff-face the length of his nose or the style of his whiskers...