Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each Hall won two sports but Smith was able to pile up more seconds and thirds and thus nose out the others Standish captured the swimming meet which was added to the list of sports for the first time this year. In the basketball league Gore went through the nine games without a defeat and then defeated the class and fraternity league winners to gain the University intramural laurels...
...victory. Foch, knowing that the Germans were about to sue for an armistice, asked Clemenceau what were the political terms on which the Allied statesmen desired to conclude peace. In effect the Tiger replied that Foch should mind his own business, conclude a purely military Armistice, and keep his nose out of the Peace Conference. Stung to the quick of pride, the Generalissimo obeyed these instructions literally, and, having concluded the Armistice, washed his hands of the Peace with these icy words to Clemenceau, "M. Le President, my work is finished. Yours begins...
...Reporter. Redheaded, gaunt and cadaverous, Super-Reporter Lewis sniffs atmosphere with a long, peculiar nose, pierces actuality with swift sharp glances. He early attained universal notoriety for Main Street and Babbitt, but long before that he had struggled as unsuccessful newspaper hack in Waterloo, Iowa, in San Francisco, New Haven. Supporting himself by prolific short stories, he led his nomadic existence, on foot, by motor, from St. Paul to Cape Cod, from Minneapolis to Washington and back again, gleaning, and sorting, and sifting the facts that compose his incisive writings. He started Dodsworth in Berlin, continued in France, Italy...
...Master Robert, winner in 1924, who used to pull a plow. This year a U. S. horse has been installed as favorite. Billy Barton, by Huon and out of Mary le Bas, owned by Howard Bruce of Baltimore, will carry many thousands of pounds sterling on his dark brown nose. Last year, as this year's cheering crowds will well remember, Billy Barton all but won. Leading, he reached the last fence. As his feet left the ground Maguelonne, a riderless French mare, barged against him. He cleared the obstacle but the evenness of his jump had been broken...
...instatement of German in the secondary curriculum. If the elimination of Germanic studies was a foolish manifestation of war-time hysteria, to allow public prejudice and the negligence of school authorities to block its return is but a perfect example of the old story, cutting off one's nose to spite one's face...