Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walks and for some strange reason she walks to Boston. One recalls places more alluring. There are the White Mountains and then, again, there are the Green Mountains. "There is, or at least was, Coral Gables. And Semerfield, N. J. has its charms. As a last resort there is Roumania. But she chooses Boston, thus proving that you never can tell. To the Herald her accomplishment is a signal for an extra; to the American it means a high life expose. The residents along the Post Roard stand on their porches, shivering in the November dawn, chatting and awaiting...
...heat and a paucity of light. The basis of friction between certain groups in both universities lies deeper than the two Princeton, game issues of the Lampoon. The Crimson editorial of yesterday should make this a it closed incident. Friends can afford to be frank, only hypocrites need resort to simulation. In a spirit of mutual respect and absolute candor let us examine the cause of this unfortunate illfeeling and assess it in its true light. I believe that the chief causes of the present situation...
Daylight Saving. Conservatives were distressed to learn that "God's time" has not been upheld, save in present Federal operation, by the last court of U. S. resort. Massachusetts farmers combined with locomotive engineers, lost an appeal to make Federal provision for Standard Time in the states. Associate Justice Holmes ("poetic; liberal") [TIME, Oct. 11] admitted arising in Massachusetts by local time, but taking trains by Standard Time; omitted to state if inconvenienced. Chief Justice Taft, humorous, discreet, expressed inability to see where any hardships were imposed by the present system; more specifically found that no penalties were carried...
Worcester fumbled often, and this loose handling of the ball nullified any attack. The schoolboy backs were unable to pierce the stone-wall defense presented by the Freshman forward wall, and were forced to resort to kicking. Good punting was instrumental in holding down the score...
...offense that Exeter may have had was rendered powerless by the constant fumbling of the schoolboy backs. The Harvard line refused to yield to any attack, and the home team was forced to resort to a kicking game, which succeeded in holding off the Freshmen to a certain extent, although Wetmore, flashy 1930 quarterback, excelled in the handling and running back of these punts...