Word: rods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which evoke individual thought require more time. If some mid-semester's grade is necessary, then to submit term papers would be far more profitable than hour exams. Irksome and worthless, those relics of juvenile schooling ought long ago to have been relegated to the limbo of the birch rod...
During javelin practice at Bowdoin College in the spring of 1932, Freshman Tapping Selah Reeve had the back of his head pierced by a javelin. He pulled the spiked rod from his skull, ran a quarter mile to the college infirmary. Last week Tapping Reeve, 23, was a Bowdoin junior with senior standing, president of Chi Psi fraternity, manager of the junior varsity football team...
...away from home one day when the youngster decided to surprise her with a startling new scene for his toy theatre. When she returned, her appreciation of his efforts was so great she spared the rod and did not even scold the boy when she discovered that much of its beauty was due to the fact that he'd cut up her lovely silver evening gown. She is a talented musician and many an hour was spent at the piano playing for him while he worked away at his scenes...
Using Friday's scrimmage as a measuring rod Coach Eddie Casey has begun to draw up a definite Varsity lineup for the first time this year. At practice this afternoon he will put together the team that will start the Bated game this Saturday, with the exception of one or two positions that are subject to change without notice...
...panel was the great grin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On the President's shoulder perched a vulture. In one hand the President held a fishing rod with a sucker on the line, in the other a bouquet of microphones. Mrs. Roosevelt stood beside him, her teeth and chin cruelly caricatured. The New Deal was represented by scattered playing cards?all deuces. Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Roosevelt Dall were seen tossing their respective spouses, portrayed as dolls, into a trash basket...