Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After three weeks we found the town completely ruined. Cut off from anything but 'The Servant in the House' and such like, the young bloods of Charlotte were doing far worse things than going to the theatre. Indeed, the town was a sink of iniquity. Also there was an exodus to Canada of most of the men folk and the women folk blocked the depot waiting for copies of "Love Life in Nature". So we sent to the city for a burlesque show, and now all' is all right in Charlotte. Your friend--Hezekish Hemple, Committee on Morals, Charlotte, Vermont...
...second half the University team came back with renewed energy but with the same misfortune encountered during the previous period. In spite of the weak defense maintained by Holy Cross the Crimson court men failed to sink their shots. At the same time their own defense was decidedly inadequate and the invaders kept piling up the score until the final whistle blew when it stood...
...more evident this fact becomes the less inclined are college men to consider public life as a career or to take any personal interest in the Government. The country is rich and prosperous; the college man who is a lazy individual is perfectly content to let the Government sink as it has been sinking gradually for many years into the hands of selfish not too greedy and fairly competent men. A recent novel of Washington life only increased this feeling of apathy by painting an even blacker picture of corruption than has ever been brought to light. Those who read...
...squeaking boots walking up and down an examination-room. It is annoying, also, to have two proctors stand behind you and converse in tones so, exquisitely modulated that you catch just half their conversation. But, great as these annoyances are, there is one other in comparison with which they sink into insignificance. It has frequently happened that as soon as a number of men had finished their papers, the books were seized by some proctor, who after reading until he came to a passage that seemed to him ridiculous, would call a fellow-proctor to enjoy the laugh with...
...Dartmouth's problem--so says the New Student, a symposium of college opinions, concerns aesthetics. Mr. Percy Marks, who is still striving to live down "The Plastic Age", has broadcast his opinion to the effect that Dartmouth students have thrown off the shackles of the "sweatshirt period" only to sink into the toils of dilettantism. A Dartmouth undergraduate ably reputed Mr. Marks' aspersions and emphatically denied that students "walk about Hanover with tiger ljlies beween their teeth and green carnations pinned to their jackets. Once more the voluble Mr. Marks offers himself as a target for criticism...