Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbia foilsmen, last year's intercollegiate champions, fell an easy prey to the University fencing team Saturday afternoon in Hemenway. The 7-2 victory marks the sixth consecutive win of Coach Danguy's men, who are so far undefeated this season...
...Crocker '22, and air-tight fielding on the part of the University nine were the features of the 11-0 victory of Coach Slattery's men over the second University team in a five-inning game yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. The scrubs proved easy prey for their heavy-hitting opponents, who scored four runs in the opening inning. E. L. Bigelowe '21 pitched for the University in place of E. F. Goode '22, whom Coach Slattery allowed to rest on account of his work against Northeastern on Saturday. Bigelowe held the seconds to six hits...
...sale at the door. The play is based on a selection from a book by Professor W. I. Drinkwater, "Ethnologic Phenomena", in which he mentions the inhabitants of the island of Tambelo, in the Malay Archipelago. These people are the descendants of a pirate colony founded there to prey on the East India trade...
...times of unusual business depression, it is only natural that unemployed men fall an easy prey to unscrupulous theorists who are trying to force their unworkable schemes on the people. As a man who is out of work through no fault of his own is disgruntled and looks with envious eyes on those in more fortunate circumstances, he heeds proposals for more equal distribution of material things, whereas such thoughts would never enter his mind in normal times when he is in possession of a job that provides with reasonable sufficiency for himself and his family. The efforts of such...
...workers of the civilized world want to be shown the way out. The Bolshevists urge a bloody revolution, and some times progress better than the larger number of advocates of steady evolution, because of their better understanding, appreciation and sympathy with the workers. A jobless laborer is easy prey for them; if he is busy, he pays no attention. In Glasgow, where nearly all the shipworkers have irregular jobs there is unbelievable unrest and misery. On the other hand, in Middleboro, England, the radicals can get no converts because the men are happy in a steady job, fair hours, good...