Word: pocketsful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Jack Dempsey, sunburned, deliberate and scowling, with an old red sweater thrown over his shoulders and a three days' beard on his chin, climbed through the ropes of a ring and sat down in his corner, people always felt sorry for his opponent. How terrible it would be...
Members of the British Royal Academy were vexed last week with a painful problem. One of their most distinguished members, Charles Sims, had sent six pictures for hanging. His eagerness to have the pictures shown was well known, but the members of the Academy were less willing to put them...
If two men have three coats, each owning one and sharing the third equally, they may take money from their pockets and put it into their other pockets in such ways that wise men will not know whether to call them fools, thieves or geniuses.
Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist, and Frank E. Lutz, curator of insects at the American Museum of Natural History, played scientific tricks with a cricket. They played the black bug in a vacuum and in a container of compressed air; for ten minutes they whirled him in a...
Harvard's canvas, never really idle, any more than is the canvas of any privately owned educational institution, today is spread for the cause of better indoor athletic facilities. That this cause is among the worthiest no visitor to Hemenway will deny. And even an athletic agnostic will be tempted...