Word: roped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work yesterday consisted entirely of preliminary conditioning, in which general calisthenics, rope skipping and passing the medicine ball occupied the bulk of the time. The workout lasted about an hour, and after a turn around the Stadium, Coach Fisher called...
...American stage"; his meeting with the "wistful Charlie Chaplin, who hides the soul of Punchinello beneath the comic rags of slapstick"; and that "delightful, naive and unconceited man, Will Rogers, who will never recover from his surprise and amazement at having been able to put over his rope-twisting chats upon a sophisticated audience...
...point where it is almost upside down but doesn't quite go over, I hold it there for ten seconds. I let it ring three times, and then hold on the other side for ten seconds, keeping this up for five minutes. I do all this by giving the rope exactly the right pull. For Sunday chapel, I wait ten seconds between each stroke...
...years he protected the bell and its clapper from an infinite variety of plots by undergraduates seeking a few extra hours of sleep in the morning. Mr. Conant described a few of the methods used, "Besides stealing the clapper, the boys used to tie up the bell with a rope. And in the wintertime they turned it upside down, filled it with water, and let it freeze." In order to avoid the padlocks, the usual method of access was to stand on the roof of Hollis, rope the Harvard chimney and come over on that. But one night, coming...
...about the seven o'clock bell is that the bellringer dislikes it at least as much as do the students. The average undergraduate soon acquires the habit of sleeping tranquilly until about eight-thirty, bell or no bell--but there is the poor bellringer, tugging away at the stubborn rope, shortly after the coldest hour of the night. And apparently, Mr. Conant is not too enthusiastic about...