Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...analyzed can drink without risk of health, while those who cannot do so must either do without them or take great risks of being poisoned. It is for this reason that the great mass of our workmen and poor people feel that Prohibition does not prohibit, but is a scheme to deny them something. . . . Is it any wonder they should rebel...
...grand idea. It could hardly fail. The four of us left our tent and went to the starting line, confident that Abrahams would be beaten. ... I drew the inside lane. The moment I looked at the number I knew that the scheme was off. And my teammates seemed to sense it too. For the training that we had had in American athletics prevented us from seizing that kind of an opportunity...
...them, they should glory in their sportsmanship-all this reads like a bad dream, like something impossible and unreal. It is as if they said, 'We planned to win by sticking a rake handle between Abraham's legs at the fifty-yard mark. It was a good scheme and it seemed sure to succeed. But at the crucial moment we didn't do it. This is real sportsmanship.' No, all this seems frankly incredible. Heretofore we have naively believed that the protests of the English in 1908 and of other foreign teams in later Olympics against...
That censorship is educationally bad seems to be pretty generally agreed. Even those who are forced to practice it usually apologize for it. If college publications have a place in the educational scheme of things as I am sure they have we should not apply to them the autocratic and paternalistic methods of rod and rote that education in general has long since discarded...
During the last two days, the decorative scheme has been rushed to completion. The triangle between Standish and Smith Halls and the Freshman gymnasium, which will be cloistered tonight by a canvas wall, has been festooned with gay Japanese lanterns, as well as the Smith quadrangle. Music will be furnished by Bert Lowe's Orchestra and the Harvardinas, led by Roy Lamson...