Word: sandwiched
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prize of one straw-hat sandwich at Jimmie's has been offered to any player who succeeds in Knocking off the spire of Memorial Hall. The betting odds are 1492 to 1919 in favor of the CRIMSON and the largest crowd in history is expected to witness the complete demolition of the blasphemers of the sacred "transcript...
...hats as we pass, by the vigorous sweeps of their rake handles or with flinging grass seed inadvertently upon our newest outing garments, these ancient toilers have this year, conceived the notion of erecting formidable wire entanglements about arbitrary to man's lands, and thus sheltered they enjoy ham sandwich "spreads" during the noon hour in perfect travesty of Class...
During the Christmas holidays two groups of University students aided the Massachusetts Forestry Association in relieving the fuel situation by cutting wood at Sandwich and at Waltham. On the day before Christmas 30 men started work on the 25-acre wood lot at Cedar Hill Farm, Waltham, owned by Miss Cornelia Warren. On the holiday 12 students worked, and on the following day 50 continued the wood-cutting. Throughout the remainder of the vacation large numbers worked daily, finally succeeding in clearing the plot of its fuel supply...
Eleven men went to Sandwich and lived there during their whole period of work. Half of them began wood-chopping on December 24 and the rest took up the job on the day after Christmas. This section paid for its own food and transportation, and were paid at the rate of $2.50 for each cord of wood. The lumber was all oak and will be burned into charcoal. Between 40 and 50 cords were secured in all, the students taking in an average of about six a day. The eleven men who stayed at Sandwich were: P. C. Francis...
...sandwich the faults between the virtues. The editorials are sparkling, thoughtful, well-balanced, for once written with an eager rather than a dutiful pen. The two leaders which follow on "Harvard's Goodies and the Living Wage"--be it noted that the Monthly when she muckrakes generously gives both sides a hearing--are eminently serious; and the second, it seems to the reviewer, effectively silences the first. For, though we grant that the present system of capital and labor may be wrong, we must in fairness admit that as long as it is in operation the College, in self-defence...