Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegations from colleges in Boston and vicinity will ride to Poland Springs in a special car or in busses. Poland Springs is the leading winter resort in New England, and weather permitting, there will be a full program of sports...
...enough as a current publication to speak for itself with dignity and a cover that suggests its contents ? Must .it call attention to itself with screaming scarlet-and thus attract the masses who would be led to believe that it ranks with the Red Book or similar publications that resort to superficial advertisement ? I used to be proud to place TIME in a prominent position on my study table. Now I am ashamed. Lois J. FISHER...
...time since graced their appearance on the street, or afforded them pleasure in secret brutal contests. . . . When we consider the morbid state of mind possessed by those collegians who night after night sat before the footlights of the notorious Soldene, and rose after each act in a body to resort to a liquor saloon near by, we are not surprised at other (perhaps but little lower) exhibitions of a mind thoroughly imbued with an immoral and contaminating influence...
...directors of the Western Conference are possessed of an admirable sense of sportsmanship. They have made a game out of proselytizing. Given, a high school halfback and ten college coaches. Object: who gets the halfback? Rules: the above. As the new code says, "any resort to improper methods is poor sportsmanship...
Said he, "I have discovered that even in prehistoric times Montmartre was the resort of geophagists, or 'dirt eaters' who came from leagues around to partake of the succulent and nutritive clay still to be found in this part of Paris. . . . Apparently clay eating continued in Montmartre until comparatively recent times. . . . For example, when Charlotte Corday assassinated the revolutionary demagogue, Jean Paul Marat on July 13, 1793, she may not have known that he had just quaffed a decanter full of powdered Montmartre clay steeped in almond water...