Word: paw
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...goes out! " For we must remember, we cannot play in New York, and that it would lose Yale thousands of dollars if we got the Thanksgiving day game. The fact is, as Mr. Codman says, Yale has been using us this year as a cat's paw to pull her chestnuts out of the fire. I think you are right in saying that "Mr. Codman's charge of hypocrisy in these matters is most unjust," but Mr. Codman only voices the convictions of many graduates and undergraduates as well as to this one-sided agitation for a dual league...
...rock, like a monster's paw...
...gives us in its simplicity. What a large class of our fellow-beings is represented by "Tommy Tittlemouse," who "caught fishes in other men's ditches"! Many of us go even further, and, not content with the ditch of another, we seize his hand, make it a cat's paw, and supplement our fish with chestnuts...