Word: passer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jerome D. Greene '96 was explaining to Aldrich Durant '02 the significance of the golden lions on top of the flagpoles. He said they were the insignia of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where John Harvard went and were therefore appropriate. Just then a passer-by was heard to remark, "Oh, look, they bought their flagpoles at S. S. Pierce...
Trotsky's son Syedov was called a money-passer. One of the prisoners said the conspirators in Moscow had given him to be carried to Syedov Trotsky in Berlin a copy of The Arabian Nights. "It served in some way which I do not remember as a secret code book," finished up Prisoner Holzmann, scratching his head with a puzzled...
...behind followed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan and his 12-year-old brother, the Duke of Harar, both tricked out in European sack suits and derbies. The roly-poly Empress Menen remained in Jerusalem. The Emperor's party significantly traveled, not on League of Nations passports or British laissez-passer cards, but on Haile Selassie's own Ethiopian Government passports...
...second successive Sunday, the playboys of Plympton street indulged their exuberance and held up traffic for an hour--between 5 and 6 o'clock--while they poured a water barrage down on any unlucky passer-by. Lowell and Leverett Houses concentrated on the lower end of Plympton street, while the two divisions of Adams House took care of the upper end. Col. Apted collected more than 40 bursar's cards; the Cambridge police threatened prosecution for four students caught with water pistols...
...left, with the ends usually removed laterally from the tackles to allow them to get down the field more easily. The formation is well balanced. It is ideal for passing because of the fact that the ends and backs can both get in the open quickly, while the passer is in excellent position to look the field over carefully. It is not as strong against the tackles as the other two formations because none of the backs are in position to quickly flank the defensive tackle or end. If a back is placed thus, the formation immediately loses its balance...