Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conquest of Columbia came as a result of efficient playing for the Penn nine, which took advantage of every opportunity at the plate, on bases, and in the field. After a warm defeat at the hands of Swarthmore, the team again played in its best form when it shut out the Dartmouth team with four runs...
...commonest method of electing representatives--by wards or single member districts--results in virtually disfranchising, so far as representation goes, all the voters of each district who do not want the winning candidate. The number of voters thus shut out from any voice in the representative body, which levies and spends the taxes of all, is often enormous: in the election of the state Senate of Pennsylvania which was in session in 1920 it amounted to 444,514. The result of the election of 13 Congressmen in Indiana in 1912 was still worse, for less than half of those...
...visitors were shut out 7-0 by Holy Cross on April 23 and Tufts defeated them last week, allowing only two hits...
...made more interesting by competition. Athletes of repute whose sole aim in college is to make a name and perhaps a professional position have no place in amateur sport. But the athlete of small means who is honestly aiming for the best in a university education should not be shut out from benefits, physical or social, because some friendly alumnus sees fit to assist him with funds...
...Something apparently has got to be done to bring about a shift of this labor away from the coal mines and into other productive industries. Any number of the poorer mines will have to be shut down indefinitely, leaving the coal supply to be drawn from the better class of properties in which, presumably, men working steadily can, at going wages, earn a fair livelihood...