Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasure to report that after last season's unfortunate choice of plays, the Harvard Dramatic Club is back in the ring again with a winner...
...good editor would have made a big difference. The dialogue in places is poor, and no good editor would let Mr. Rinchart write instead of a simple "he said," such things as he started, he snarled, she snapped, she giggled, said the man evenly, and said the woman triumphantly. Ring Lardner once wrote a satirical story in which every character always said things with a lordly snort, or with an easy sneer. Mr. Rinchart should read that story...
...Tigers opened up with two touchdowns in the first quarter, before the visitors dug in to hold them until halftime. Lack of reserve strength had its effect in the third quarter, allowing Princeton to ring up to more scores...
...just as he left it seven days ago. The names were still as empty as the circles beside them were bare. Most of the country had pencilled an X in the circle under President; Vag took out his pen and entered the letters V A G in the ring. He could vote for himself any time and best of all, he didn't need a stamp...
...jack-in-the-box, the booming U.S. toy industry this week was working around the clock to fill the biggest Christmas stocking in history. With 24 million new customers born since 1940, and plentiful materials for the first time since war's end, the toymakers expect to ring up record 1948 retail sales of $300 to $400 million, at least 20% above...