Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University tennis team took the measure of the Cornell netmen on the Divinity courts Saturday afternoon, 7 to 2; while the Freshmen shut out Dean Academy, 6 to 0. The University players won four out of six singles and all the doubles from their opponents in a decisive fashion...
...Pennsylvania aggregation has shown great scoring power during the season,, its latest victory having been a 15 to 5 shut-out over Randolph-Macon College in Philadelphia last Saturday...
...upon Mr. Schwab's and Mr. Rockefeller's interests in West Virginia, the same charge that had previously been laid upon Mr. Mellon's company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven the Pittsburgh operators to adopt like measures, to meet the price competition...
...tell him, Mr. Fixit. I stutter." This bromide* has been put to good use by the alert Scripps-Howard newspapers. People metaphorically stutter when in trouble or when annoyed. They like to have some handyman appear when the water is shut off, when a neighbor's garbage is dumped in their backyard, when their cat gets the colic, when there is a hole in the road in front of their garage. Five years ago, Editor H. D. Jacobs of the Scripps-Howard Baltimore Post conceived the idea of making one of his reporters a Mr. Fixit, whose duty would...
Janet had married not only this house in Halkin Street, but also Wintersmoon with its Minstrel's Gallery, and Queen Elizabeth's bed, its three ghosts, its Spanish walk. But to Rosalind, Wintersmoon was merely the depths of Wiltshire: old house half shut up, woods, ponds, peacocks, Salisbury Plain in the distance. So Janet lost Rosalind; and all that remained was a great emptiness. She could indeed have filled it with the traditional affairs of her mother-in-law the duchess-soup kitchens, canons, Agatha Bazaar-but much as she loved tradition, she was too modern for that...