Word: squashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...died with the title 30 years later. Bulbous, misguided George III revived the title for his fourth son, cantankerous Edward Augustus, in 1799. Edward of Kent was one of the worst tempered men who ever lived. As a Brit ish officer he did his blundering best to squash the Yankee farmers in the American Revolution. For his efforts he was finally raised to the rank of a Field Marshal. His fondness for having soldiers flogged at cannon wheels or blown from the muzzle of guns, and later his refusal to issue whiskey to the ranks, forced his retirement as Governor...
Reported recommendations of a committee of House chairmen and head tutors to be presented to the University have undertaken the solution of a problem which has vexed students since the beginning of the squash season. The discontinuance of these courts by House officials has met with sharp disapproval by men interested in using these facilities...
Many students have bought squash cards from the H.A.A. only to find that they could be used exclusively at the Linden Street courts. Since the demand for these courts far exceeds their capacity students desiring a half-hour of exercise are forced to use the House courts and pay for each game. The House courts, being in closer proximity to the Houses and having a definite number of courts set aside for members of each House, are preferred by most students to those on Linden Street. For those who play daily the charge for each game is irksome and many...
...Since squash is one of the most popular winter sports of students in the Houses and because most of them play daily it is evident that the season card system is vastly more economical and satisfactory than the plan now in effect. That some such plan together with the addition of courts at Hemenway will be adopted as a result of the recommendations of the committee is highly desirable and imperative...
...when pressed, frost-resisting grapes that flourish in Moscow and the Ural uplands. Undoubtedly he has produced fruits that yield more abundantly, stand shipment better and grow farther north than the older varieties. To bring out ever new mutations, he shocks with electricity the seeds of apples, watermelons, almonds, squash, plums. Oranges and grapefruit developed by him are grown in the "Soviet Florida" on the Black Sea. Tireless in his old age, he works now on tobacco to be grown on the lower Volga...