Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...steaks at five cents a pound, eggs, fresh from the factory, and milk, its supply unlimited by the number of cows, piped to your room direct from the laboratory. And even if we can't bring ourselves to think of this, we might consent to take our food in pill form until the profiteers cease from profiteering...
...hold back the English is evident, but they did cause considerable trouble. A strengthening of such-points of resistance would very likely make a fortress. How are such pits to be destroyed? Maybe the tanks will be equipped with heavier guns, so that they can amble up to a "pill box" and fire point blank. Some new weapon or method of attack will certainly be devised to put the machine gun strongholds out of commission. Whatever is contrived, however, will be but one more step in the development taking place along the Western spout...
...news-gatherers' line-up is not quite decided. A few of the best of the ex-candidates, defeated earlier this season by the editors' team, will be given a chance to show their quality. Rhinelander will start the game as pill-propeller, and Bishop will gather up each curve as it is missed by the funny man who happens...
...usual large and proficient band will represent the CRIMSON, with S. S. Hall as premier pill-heaver. The Bow Street Gang, on the other hand, is a surprisingly weak-kneed lot, and little is expected of them. "Special Delivery" Wentworth will issue free passes and round-trip tickets from the twirler's mound, "Hank Gowdy" Smith completing the battery...
...local baseball season will have its real opening today, when the CRIMSON Clouters meet the Cringing Candidates Association on Soldiers Field at 2.30 o'clock. The editorial nine is in great form, and will undoubtedly continue its unbroken string of victories. At hitting the pill, pilfering bags, bagging flies and flying around the bases the CRIMSON has no superiors; while Steamship Hall, the war-scarred veteran of the pitching mound, will convince any anti-militarists among the opposing batsmen that adequate defense is the best policy. Star playing by the candidates has been carefully guarded against by an arrangement...