Word: rods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five hours and 20 minutes after the start, the Stutz coasted into the repair pits, where mechanics swarmed over it like ants on a picnic cake. The foreign car kept droning on its way. Soon the Stutz mechanics shook their heads; their pet had broken a connecting rod...
...forbid. I think that this is only another demonstration of the fact that the old maxim of "Spare the rod and spoil the child" has quite gone out of fashion of late. Its is easy to say that a college student is no longer a child: maybe not, in the accepted sense of the word, but he certainly is intellectually, in comparison to those professors whose duty it is to guide him on the paths of learning...
Therefore it is also their duty to apply the rod in the form of D's and E's when his academic endeavours fall below the standards set by the University. And the only way to find out whether his work is up to those standards is to compose examinations which shall thoroughly test his knowledge. Professor Rollins did no more than this; granted it was a good comprehensive test, but when a student enrolls in a course he is supposed to do the work of that course, and if he doesn't like...
...carried a compass and level, while a Negro assistant named "George" carried the rod...
Bang! Bang! BANG! The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was striking pon- derously with that heavy instrument, last week, the door of the Canadian House of Commons. Thus summoned, the Right Honorable Members followed Black Rod to the Red Chamber of the Canadian Senate. Soon His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, pronounced the Speech from the Throne, opening Parliament...