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When Ian Wallace’s perfect bases-loaded, suicide squeeze capped a three-run, ninth-inning comeback in a Game 4 victory over Brown yesterday, the Harvard baseball team rushed onto the diamond to pound fists and high five and wallow in the joy of another clutch performance in a must-have game...
...know, the Luddites used to pound down mill doors with this giant hammer they called ‘Enoch,’” I told my tutor. “They named it after one of the guys who built power looms, and as they smashed they’d chant, ‘Enoch made it!/ Enoch will break it’ in time with the hammers. I think that’s pretty lyrical, don’t you? Maybe I could write about rioters’ chants: history and literature. And sledgehammers...
...Cambridgeport Gymnasium Association will be held on Monday evening, February 5, at 7:30 o'clock in the Cambridgeport Gymnasium, corner of Prospect and Harvard streets. The open events will be as follows: 20-yard dash, 140-yard run, 880-yard run, 1-mile run, high jump, putting 16-pound shot. Team races may be arranged later. An entry fee of 25 cents will be charged for the first event entered and 10 cents for each additional event. Prices will be given for first and second places. Entries which close on Monday, may be made to John Roberts, Cambridgeport Gymnasium...
...separated when he was young, and his mother, Dionisia Pacquiao, raised her six children on her paltry income from a series of odd jobs. Manny helped out by selling bread and taking in laundry, but in his spare time he would do gofer work at the local gym or pound cardboard boxes filled with clothes - his first makeshift punching bag. Wiry, tanned and talkative, 54-year-old Dionisia nowadays lives next door to Pacquiao's new house, in a smaller place her son bought her. She leaves little doubt who her favorite child is: "He is like a Xerox copy...
...know what to make of the costumes, designed by Jane H. Van Cleef ’06. While the play is set in modern dress, and the Lords wear inoffensive suits, the fairies wear a ridiculous array of rags that seem to have been bought for a dollar a pound at a consignment shop and then dragged through the mud several times. The result is suitably strange, but also a little baffling; why would the aristocratic and starchy Lords marry women who look like mentally disturbed paupers? It’s even stranger when you consider that Iolanthe...