Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five of the capsized fisherman had drowned before the swimmers reached them, but it was no trick at all for Kahanamoku and his followers to buoy up 13 survivors, drag them across their boards, catch a wave and rush their gasping passengers ashore in relays. The exhibition bore out, surprisingly soon, a recent pronouncement of the U. S. President (TIME, June 1, THE PRESIDENCY), that swimming "in itself constitutes a useful accomplishment...
Adoniram Judson Sidney Lanier Matthew F. Maury James Otis William Penn Wendell Phillips Paul Revere Henry H. Richardson Benjamin Rush Philip H. Sheridan Benjamin Thompson Henry David Thoreau Noah Webster Walt Whitman
...Crimson started off with a rush in the first frame when Ellison drove a hard grounder at Di Giovanni, getting two bases when the Springfield infielder juggled the play and threw wild to first. Zarakov came through with a clean hit through shortstop, scoring Ellison. He stole second a moment later, and scored when Tobin produced the first of the three bingles which he collected during the afternoon. The Crimson first baseman--was caught for the third out when he attempted to steal second...
...Sever 20 Freudenthal-Yaghjian Sever 23 Economics 41 Sever 30 Egyptology 3 Emerson F English 49 Sever 30 Fine Arts 1f Robinson Hall Fine Arts 2d Fogg Mus. French 21 Sever 29 Geology 16 Sever 29 German 1a, I, II Sever 11 German 21 Sever 11 Government 19b Ansell-Rush Sever 7 Shaw-Williams Sever 11 History B Fogg Lect. Rm. History 1 Dr. Schaeffer, 1, 11, 13 New Lect. Hall Mr. Achorn, 2, 15 Sever 36 Mr. Achorn, 23, 26 Sever 35 Mr. Barnhart, 3, 22, 28, 30 New Lect. Hall Mr. Buck, 6, 14, 17, 27 New Lect...
...fault in occidental optimism that it seems to ignore the ancient East. In the East civilization arose earliest, has lasted with least change, and bids fair to endure with greatest permanency. The East is both civilized and barbarous, and out of its barbarity new hordes may rush upon the flimsy fabric of occidentalism. In pushing strident commercial claims, the possibility of reaction must be remembered; and greed for a few dollars today must not be allowed to organize the tremendous forces of the East into a unanimity of hostility. A mess of potage for today is not worth a birthright...