Word: pocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Summary: DARTMOUTH 1932 HARVARD 1933 Macky, Pock l.e. r.e., Reisner, Werner Thompson, Durgin, Campbell, l.t. r.t., Shurtleff, Morgan Branch, Gaynor, l.g. r.g., Hageman, Esterly, Waters Eastman, Kimball, c. C., Hallowell, Almy Blumenthal, Miller, r.g. l.g., Harter Mudge, Xanthacky, r.t. l.t., Bancroft, Esterly Connelly, Chapman, Freeman, r.e. l.e., Barton, Lovett Rollins, Donovan, q.b. q.b., Wolcott, Coburn Wilson, Degasis, l.h.b. r.h.b., Leonard, Feins Schollenberger, Smart, r.h.b. l.h.b., Scott, Thorndike, Davison Sampson, f.b. f.b., Hardy, Scott...
...Moon stared coldly down at Long Island last week, Elinor Smith, slim and 17, flew past his pock-marked face. His expression did not change. She whirled her biplane - a Brunner-Winkle Bird - and flew past him again, again, again. She was willing to do that all night, for she was trying for a new woman's solo record. The old record, made by one Bobby Trout on New Year's Day in California, was 12 hr., n min. After several hours, Miss Smith began to sing - every song she could remember. That was not insouciance...
...Among the duties of the Secretary of the Treasury is that of causing to be struck, as soon as possible after inauguration day, a bronze medal bearing the new Presi'dent's likeness. No effort or money is spared to reproduce the last freckle, pock, line, whisker; the exact crook of nose, areas of baldness, hair part, ear convulsions, etc., for the Presidential medals constitute the official record of what each President looked like while in office. Until about ten years ago, the medals were called "Indian peace medals," hundreds of them being distributed to chieftains...
Little pieces of paper, when stuffed into people's pockets or pock etbooks, wear out less quickly than big pieces. Also, little ones can be made into one-dollar bills more cheaply than big ones...
...Socrates and other famed eyesores. Competitors soon came flocking-a fishmonger with warts; a bald female pinhead who claimed to have been in a circus; an Italian Jew with erysipelas; Mme. Grun, a scowling housewife, with photographs of a neighbor whose mouth, she vowed, would admit a whole orange; pock-marked taxi-drivers; a carp-eyed spinster with a goitre like a wasp's nest; a Belgian...