Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this afternoon. Tomorrow morning at 8.30 all those going on the picnic will assemble on the steps of the Widener Library. Don't forget to put on your overalls. Be on time! We must be on our way to Boston by 8.45. Tuck a goodly sum in your pocket. You will be given a chance to use it. You go from here to Rowe's Wharf. There you board a boat which will take you to a secluded spot near Nantasket where, with refreshments, the University Band and the proximity of Paragon Park you will be able to spend...
...nothing. It is the first alteration in the scale of officers' pay for over fifteen years. Hitherto, a second lieutenant received only $1700 a year; and the higher grades have been almost equally underpaid. We must realize, moreover, that the officer is compelled to purchase, out of his own pocket, what the enlisted man receives free...
Although, everything over one-half of one per cent, has (ostensibly) passed into the limbo of the unknown, certain features have come to recompense the toiling undergraduate for this his greatest loss. Here and there a hip pocket bulges happily, now and again the Puritanic fragrance of the Yard is spiced with a more pleasing aroma. All in all, however, the era of John has passed. We enter upon the age of Fortuna. Things may not be moving forward, but they certainly are moving...
...point where the tunnel passes under the sidewalk in the rear of Gore Hall the street caved in as the sand and gravel beneath it were washed away and a pocket of water had formed...
Engineers stated late last night that as soon as the water had been pumped from this pocket, excavations would be made in front of Randolph Hall. It is expected that another pool has formed in that locality. This new move was to be made at 5 o'clock this morning...