Word: quilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson outfit, both in the outfield and in the inner defenses, played the same sterling, wide-awake ball that brought it victory over the Tigers in the first Big Three series. The hitting was weak throughout. Coach Mitchell's charges collected only four hits off the southpaw offerings of Quill. The Brown hurler was the second left-hander to face the Harvard batters this season, the other having been Woodruff, the Amherst captain, and though the team finally came off victor, the game was in doubt until the final out, and the winning run was pushed over, not against Quill...
...Crimson batters were unable to hit Quill in the pinches as the 13 Harvard men left on base will testify. He showed signs of weakening in the ninth, however, and was removed in favor of Danzell, ace boxman for the Bruins. In the first game of the Harvard-Brown series, Danzell showed himself weak in fielding bunts, and it was by this method that the home club eked out a win the tenth stanza...
...Edgar Allan Poe. At Colgate there are the weird Skull and Scroll, and Gorgon's Head. University of California has its Skull and Key and its Golden Bear. Other famed senior societies: Owl and Serpent (Chicago), Iron Cross (Wisconsin), Skull and Snakes (Leland Stanford), Iron Wedge (Minnesota), Quill and Dagger (Cornell), Innocents (Nebraska), Mystical Seven and Skull and Serpent (Wesleyan...
...your Original Subscribers and I believe my attitude toward TIME is typical of the old guard. We do not want TIME changed! Since occasional younger fry - subscribers with only half a dozen copies on the shelf - delight to flay you, may I draw my quill in your defense ? Some of these nouveaux readers have criticized your repetition of "famed" (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 2). May I state that the old guard likes TIME'S distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks...
...less evident class who vouchsafe not a look to the present. For them there is no literature but that which has been written. The whole past is a golden age never to return. An author is regarded askance if he wrote with anything more modern than a goose-quill pen; literary modernity is literary heresy...