Word: smotheration
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Some fishermen were hired to hack the flesh away with knives. Progress was slow. Day followed dreary winter day. A storm blew up, covered beach and carcass with a brawling smother of surf. Toiling waist-deep in the icy water, Andrews and Clark made fast the carcass as best they could. When the weather cleared the precious remains were finally found buried deep in the sand...
Promise. "The so-called party leaders of the two great parties may believe they can smother this issue in this campaign. But they were never more mistaken in their lives. If I can get the radio about the middle of October, I shall report progress on this issue...
From Lake Cayuga and from the region of Hanover are coming to town two rather determined and powerful track squads that intend to smother any aspirations the Harvard track men may have of gaining their ninth straight victory in the fifteenth annual Triangular Meet at Boston Garden tonight. Taking the results of the IC4A games as an indication, the veteran Cornell coach, Jack Moakley, and his boys are favored to take the team title back home with them...
...increase from $90 to $100 a month in pensions for total, service-connected disabilities; liberalization of hospital privileges for all sick veterans; an increase of burial allowances for dead veterans from $75 to $100. Cost of the changes: $21,000,000 a year, cheap if it serves to smother the Reed bill...
...while Notre Dame was preparing to smother Carnegie Tech, the late Knute Rockne jaunted confidently to Chicago to see the Army-Navy game. Coach Rockne nearly had a stroke as he read bulletin after bulletin from Pittsburgh telling how a Carnegie quarterback named Howard Harpster was running wild through Notre Dame, 19-to-0. Two years later Harpster, All-American quarterback, helped Carnegie to repeat. Last week, as youngest coach in major football (26), he sent his team against Notre Dame once more. In the first minute of play Carnegie handled Notre Dame exactly as Princeton handled Columbia (see above...