Word: punching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several other men from last year's team who are shaping up well. Among the new recruits to the University team might be mentioned Joseph Lifrak '29. Captain of last year's Freshman team; and P. S. Rand '29, a man, who, although without previous experience, has the punch and the spirit to make a good grappler in the middleweight class. But the team needs substitutes. Coach Lewis announces, and now candidates would still be welcomed...
...science (Whitney, Langley, Muir, Hitchcock, Guyot, Russell, Leconte, Tyndall, etc.), while our great peaks in southern California have "saint" names, (San Antonio, San Gorgonio, San Jacinto, San Gabriel, etc.)--Anglo-Saxon and Spanish contrasted, or science and religion, if you like. However, we have a Devil's Punch-bowl across the range from Pasadena...
...typical of many classes of America, the Spokesman-Review's condemnation loses validity. Mr. Pickwick differs from Corey Ford and Crunkshank from John Held; each is admirable in his way because each represents a definite spirit. Intrinsically there is no reason why College Humor is not as funny as Punch, and the popularity of each in their respective countries only demonstrates the variances of national tastes...
...takes diversion breeding Suffolk Punch horses and Brown Swiss cattle on his stock farm in Libertyville, 111. When the Chicago Opera Company, which long had rested on the weary shoulders of Mr. Harold F. McCormick and his wife, the now Mrs. Rockefeller-McCormick, came to Mr. Insull for salvation, the yearly deficit was a million dollars. Now it is $350,000. Directors predict that Samuel Insull will make it pay. Rarely, when he is in Chicago, does he miss a performance. In the entr'acte he goes behind to encourage the singers and they in turn speak...
Needless to say I shall continue to read : Vogue, TIME, The Atlantic, Scribner's The Illustrated London News, Punch, Country Life and The Saturday Review...