Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first ten men to finish in the Varsity race were as follows: Pen Tuttle '40 (H), John Frederiksen (BU), Sam Wilson (BU), Roswell Brayton '39 (H), David Simboli '40 (H), Gene Clark '40 (H), Bob Nichols '41 (H), George Gardner '39 (H), Richard Wing '40 (H), Edmund Childs...
...time was 21:15.4. He was followed at the finish line by Dave Wilson, a newcomer to cross country racing in 21:42. The rest of the first twenty at the finish line were as follows in the order listed: Jim McLaughlin, Bob Jay, Dias, Roswell Brayton, Jean Clark, Pen Tuttle, Dick Wing, Cy Martin, Ted Noone, Johnny Wells, Dave Simboli, Bob Burns, McElligott, Lewis, Sopka, George Heywood, Griffith, and Charlie Meyer...
...been the perfect picture of a Tammany fight, with plenty of mud-slinging at the finish, between two Irishmen alike as two of Paddy's pigs in outlook except that one of them had been cursed by Franklin Roosevelt for breaking out of the New Deal pen and the other had promised to be good...
...this double negative, Secretary Hull last week, again with the help of Under Secretary Sumner Welles's forceful pen, dispatched an answer. He declared that expropriation without compensation is "bald . . . unadulterated confiscation"; that Mexico's attitude was alien to the constitutions and undermined confidence in the fair dealing of all 21 Republics of the Western Hemisphere; that Mexico ought at least to stop expropriating the lands of U. S. owners, agree to a two-man (U. S. and Mexican) commission to fix values, and start putting aside some cash to pay for lands already taken...
...word without a meaning is a dead word, a corrupt word. . . . Let us write that word in large black letters on a sheet of foolscap; then solemnly apply a match to the paper. . . . Now let us bray the ashes in a mortar with a goose-feather pen, and declare in unison singing together that anyone who uses that word in future is a ring-the-bell-and-run-away man, a mischief maker, a groper among old bones, the proof of whose defilement is written in a smudge of dirty water upon his face." The word Virginia Woolf thus exorcises...