Word: soap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four periods Princeton fought itself into a lather on a field as wet as a shampoo, with a ball as slippery as shaving soap, against Colgate. In the last minutes a sophomore from Dayton, Ohio (Abraham Mankat, Colgate) forced a safety by blocking a kick; whereupon his encouraged teammates scored a touchdown that dashed the championship hopes of the last of the Big Three. Score: Colgate 9, Princeton...
...near enough to exhibit her Hellenic proportions to western eyes. The State Department would have seen to that. Realizing that the female of the species can create commotion too communistic for democratic hearts to bear, the gentlemen at Washington very cavalierly cancel the Countess Karolyis visit here. On foreign soap boxes she must stand, not on the 99 plus percent pure cubes of these United States. If there is to be any propagandizing it must be native born. Even the hot air must be national...
...effects is so small as to be negligible, and is more than offset by the fact that the College makes the sons and daughters of coal-miners and immigrants "refined", and refinement means a taste for chintzes and silk socks and sedans and renting-library fiction and fancy soap. The College helps Industry. Industry helps the College. Allies...
Princeton is going to be beaten (I don't like Princeton, and I am going to predict this every week until they are). Colgate is a name to be conjured with. (After careful deliberation I have decided against any feeble shaving-soap joke), and the name of Tryon is to the football world what Joe Forecast is to the world of forecasting...
...this form of mental contagion to an alarming extent in the rural districts. Tom, Tom, the farmer's son, instead, of leading books on fertilizers, on grafting, on pheasant raising, as more sensible fellows may be doing, spends his evenings listening to talk about the condition of the soap and toothpaste industry, about stocks and bonds, about Florentine painting, about Peter Rabbit. To combat this absurdity the universities of Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind with orderly knowledge, sending lectures through the air, giving college credits to those...