Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause you any mental effort to read "The Nervous Wreck". I strongly suspect, in fact, that it didn't cause the author any mental effort to write it. Probably he just started writing and wrote easily on, letting the plot unfold itself as it saw fit. That was the way with Henry Williams, alias "The Wreck". When he started out in his flivver, he just went nowhere in particular wherever chance took him. And Sally, being his sole passenger (and a very delightful one, too, I hasten to add). Sally, having really very little choice in the matter, just went...
Monday evening saw the Maples working overtime once again, but on this occasion only one additional period was necessary to nose out Boston College 2 to 1. Last night against the B. A. A. the two teams played till well after midnight, and were forced to stop at the fourth overtime period after 85 minutes of play, with the score dead-locked, 3-3. So if past performances mean anything, this evening's program should be a lengthy...
...saw the game will deny that the visitors were the better team, but Harvard made them fight for every point. Not a field goal dropped through the Crimson net during the first ten minutes, largely because of the phenomenal work of Rudofsky. Followers of Harvard basketball have come to take Rudofsky's defensive brilliance for granted, but he deserves special mention for his performance last night...
...short but very cold wave which swept the Southeastern States, especially Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, has at least blown someone some good. Discouraged cotton planters through that section, who, during the 1923 crop season, saw the boll weevil destroy their crops, are beginning to wonder if the cold snap has reduced the insect ravage. In the past, an exceedingly cold winter in the eastern cotton belt has usually been followed by several years of good crops. The boll weevil, while apparently able to grow fat on the arsenic compounds with which the cotton plant is sprayed, cannot endure...
Years ago Steiglitz saw the possibilities of photography as an artistic medium and set out to make a photograph a personal thing that should be adapted to different types-not a stiff, hard picture, but a soft, delicate thing, properly composed and balanced-with beauty of line and grace of movement, as in a fine painting...