Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bulgarians, however, were not so pleased about Karagach passing into Turkish hands; nor do they relish the growing power of Turkey (their age-old enemy) in Europe...
That they do not relish continual defeat is not hard to guess; and from what the average supporter has seen of Harvard football teams he knows that on every squad there are men who understand how to win. Form may be an excellent thing but the layman has a habit of discounting it after the first three miles in favor of plain guts, and though it is not always easy to see clearly or think distinctly at New London one thing simple to grasp would be a Harvard crew crossing the finish first. There are many kinds of systems. Some...
...this Mr. Jim Blake, of Glens Falls, New York, writing in The Outlook, would reply that the Admiral overlooks the claims of pig iron. Pig iron doesn't relish its limitations. It would like nothing better than an infusion of tungsten. And it suffers when it is told to stay pig. Mr. Blake refers particularly to Dartmouth, which, since it has launched upon a career of excellence, has been quite tactless in its expulsions. Nearly 300 Sophomores and Juniors, as well as Freshmen, were expelled last midyear. "It was pitiful," says Mr. Blake, "to see the distress. Some were...
...modern Freshman do not relish sermons in print, and the modern attitude tends to jet each man shift for himself. Furthermore, there are no longer the convenient though sometimes irksome rules of conduct which made his way easier than he suspected. To take the place of these, various systems of voluntary advice have been invented, each more or less helpful, but non entirely adequate. The Student Advisory Committee, in particular, with its individual adviser appointed for each Freshman, is able to give much help in an intimate and varied...
...taste, bring us in touch again closely with those young men and old we knew, and with those we wish humbly we might have known. There is nothing in all this volume to cause anyone to regret the writing, and to some it has seemed our dead would not relish being put too often between the covers of books. In this case all is done in fairness, and with every regard for the ideals of the men themselves...