Word: shut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Driscoll's delivery at opportune moments. On the other hand, Hitchcock held the Maine team well in hand at all stages, giving them only two safe hits one of which was of the scratch variety. Had he been given creditable support in the field he would have scored a shut...
...doors at left and right in panels painted to represent marble. Pinkish curtains carry the eye back from the drop curtain to these panels. Properties or bits of setting placed between these panels and the back drop vary the full-stage scenes. In Adriana's house rich, red curtains shut off all except front stage. The thoughtful and skillful setting proves how well suggestion can replace detail and give a greater beauty...
...hockey series with Yale was very well begun on Saturday night when the University team shut out its opponents and won the game by the score of 4 to 0. The men from New Haven were clearly outclassed in every department and their attacks on the University defence proved futile. Captain Gardner had less than a dozen stops to make during the entire evening, while Schiller had about double that number, and was in constant danger of being scored upon. His work was of a very high order, however, and it was due largely to his individual efforts that...
...Some fears have been felt, notably by boys still at school, that the gates are to be shut, and the Freshmen sent to bed, at fixed hours. Nothing of the kind is intended. On remarking some time ago that students cannot be driven anywhere by regulations, I was contradicted by the dean of another institution who insisted that by regulations they can be driven to the Devil. I accepted the amendment. We expect to rely upon creating the right environment, upon the influence that can be brought to bear by instructors, by upper classmen and by the leading figures among...
...spend that enjoyable hour of chat of two travellers thrown together by the fortunes of the road during the wait for a train on a remote station platform. To a limited extent (a very limited extent) the Union has fulfilled this purpose. But bricks and mortar will not shut out the prevailing community atmosphere from a small precinct sacred to free-and-easy democracy, and, rightly or wrongly, Cambridge is not a back-slapping community. There are excellent things which it misses thereby, but such is, apparently, the unalterable case...