Word: penne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tender and sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earth worms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness. Eels even cooked retain their stench of the sea. Snakes. . . . An atavistic nausea sickened the boys. Black jungle folk might drool over the carcass of a boa constrictor. But Penn State students! None the less they were themselves to eat snake flesh to maintain a college tradition. Goggly-eyed, some watched their cook strip the skin from five rattlesnakes, gut them, parboil the sleek joints. The 20 freshmen ate, wearing the green grin of bravado...
...bows right and left, this gangling fellow, as lean as a lariat, in the old suit and the cracked shoes. His under lip protrudes like the point of a vulgar joke. His jaws move perpetually, up and down, chewing insult, chewing fancy, chewing humor, chewing gum. It is William Penn Adair Rogers, the diplomatist...
...ahead; at three and three-quarter miles, Navy whistles screamed that the shells were even; then the oars of "Rusty" Callow's men pushed back the Hudson river sufficiently to heave one-quarter length of the Washington shell across the finish line first. After the Navy came Syracuse, Penn, Columbia, California, Wisconsin, Cornell, in glittering procession...
...today in other lines of endeavor. Until examinations are given in such a spirit, until they become useful rather than artificial, until they serve as a test for understanding rather than the capacity to cram, they are one of the gravest defects in America's sieve-like educational system. Penn State Collegian. June...
...battled over the course early in May; but without disparaging Pennsylvania's rowing prestige in the slightest, it can be said that the substitution of this year's Navy crew for the Pennsylvania eight makes today's contest of more importance and interest than last year's race between Penn, Harvard, Cornell...