Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slippers, decorated her face, wrists and ankles with luminous paint, and placed her hands in those of an observer in the darkened room. An electric current was passed through the bodies of all the observers so that if any one broke his neighbor's grip, a bell would ring. Despite these and other "laboratory test" conditions, Margery was able to summon "Walter" (her brother, killed in an accident), who whistled, cracked jokes, pulled the professors by their forelocks, bantered them, played checkers with (and beat) one of them, lifted weights (a corresponding increase in Margery's weight being...
Rutgers College, now Rutgers University, was a ring-leader in the inauguration of intercollegiate football. Back in 1875 or thereabouts she, with Yale and Princeton, arranged the first intercollegiate football schedule. She is also the home of that deathless hymn, "I'd Die for Dear Old Rutgers!" We seem to see a connection...
...That is why humorists are paid so much more than other writers. The average salary of a newspaper man is about $50 a week. The average for humorous writers is from $200 to $2000 dollars a week. Only a few men get the top figure, but there are some, Ring Lardner and Will Rogers, for instance...
...buoyed up by these words of cheer, I am fighting the good fight and essaying a comeback. This evening the clarion call will ring over Cambridge, "Joe Forecast has come back." I may even receive the new O-o-o Rah cheer (I hope...
...fourth injured Dartmouth player, is Holleran, left tackle, else recently broke his finger. Hardy, who has been starting games in his position, has clinched the berth and will face Harvard Hardy's work has been exceptionally good and he should make a good run ring-mate for Captain Parker, right tackle...