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Word: sway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Such usurpation, however, lasts but a short month. Until then let the inhabitants of the sacred Yard beware lest returning late from revelry they sway from the straight and narrow path, and becoming ensnared in the wire, fall with great force into a seedbed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IT SHALL BLOSSOM LIKE A ROSE." | 5/10/1919 | See Source »

Even the malicious Cambridge weather is yielding to the omnipotent sway of spring. Day by day the overcoats and heavy winter suits are giving way to light and jaunty summer clothes. Flannel trousers have already appeared on the tennis courts and many youths have taken off their burdensome vests. But what is to happen to the clothing which is cast aside? Shall Max be called upon or shall it be put to some better use? The Phillips Brooks House has solved the problem, and for the next three days it will hold its annual spring clothing collection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM WINTER FLANNELS TO WHITE FLANNELS | 4/14/1919 | See Source »

...sword, the sceptre, and that sway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History Repeats. | 11/22/1918 | See Source »

Both University and Freshman baseball will come into full sway this week when the fielding candidates report to Coach Duffy on Wednesday afternoon in the cage. Although Coach Duffy has expressed himself as well satisfied with the battery material so far offered, no accurate estimate of the team may be made until the fielders are called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEN TRYING FOR FIELDING POSITIONS OUT WEDNESDAY | 2/25/1918 | See Source »

...make this dance a success will mean co-operation from every Junior. The old method of giving carpenters full sway in the Union for two or three days must be abolished now that the Union is taking Memorial's place as a dining-hall. There will be but little chance for decorations unless the men who normally eat in the Union volunteer to leave for the terrors of a Jimmie's bread-line. Something radical must be done because it is impossible to have a dance in a place which has acquired the gentle aroma of a Holt's Cafeteria...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE JUNIOR DANCE | 12/19/1917 | See Source »

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