Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here the impression is impaired by a too highly colored wordiness. The setting is best managed in "The Walloping Window Blind", with admirable restraint and with something of Conrad's feeling for the terror of remote seas. One of the least objectionable modes of getting atmosphere would be the resort to dialect, if it were not now so much over-worked. The trick justifies itself, however, in the four pieces of fiction included in this issue because of the dexterity with which it is used. Mr. Behn produces the virtual effect of dialect, in his "Translation from the Navajo...
...large majority of us, however, will resort to the more familiar means of the motor car. Many a flivver that has never (under the guidance of its present owner, at least) rattled on any highway beyond walking distance of Cambridge, will find itself drawn into the stream of vehicles headed westward on the fourth of November. Some of us will reserve our favorite Boston taxi, and auction off cubic feet of space in it to the highest bidder as long as there is space left. Others have already ordered our town cars to be boxed up and shipped from Chicago...
...remainder of the game the seconds tried vainly to push through the Exeter defense. As a last resort Coach Knox sent in J. S. Greenberg '22 for F. W. Pratt '23 at quarterback with orders to start an aggressive aerial offence at any cost. The first attempt, Greenberg to K. N. Hill '24, caught the schoolboy eleven unawares and netted 10 yards. On the next play, however, an Exeter player grabbed the expected forward on his own 35-yard line. The game ended with the ball on the Exeter 40-yard line...
Ever since the Silver Bay Conferences have been held it has been custom to recruit undergraduates by describing the opportunities for recreation which the conferences offer. The ten days spent there, one was almost led to believe, would be as enjoyable as if passed in the gayest summer resort. Although it is true that conferences as they are now conducted are extremely enjoyable--there seems to be a danger that in an effort to get men to attend, this aspect of the conference may be over-emphasized...
When asked if labor did not also resort to such tactics he replied in three words-"It isn't true...