Word: swift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...charter will take place at the polls today between 6 and 4.30 o'clock. L. A. Frothingham, of Boston, the Republican candidate for governor in opposition to Governor Foss, is a Harvard graduate of the class of '93. Robert Luce '82, Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and J. M. Swift '97, Republican candidate for Attorney-General, are also Harvard men prominent in today's elections...
...other articles, "Lacrosse Among the Indians," by Mr. Skinner; "The Underlying Spirit," by Mr. Mariett, and "Plutocracy and the College," by Mr. Swift, are interesting and well written; but if I really believed Mr. Swift's arrangement, I should want to shut up shop at once and take to farming...
...false lines will snap with a loud whang and the fun will be seen to burst forth. Games at tiddletywinks on fly paper have been arranged between the Whistle, the Opera, and the other clubs. At a seasonable time swift blacks will slip wholesome clams amongst the avid throng...
Team 14, The Summer Widowers.--T. H. Thomas '12, captain, S. H. Cross '12, C. B. Randall '12, C. H. Reisenger '12, W. H. Renter '13, H. W. Ryan '11, H. Y. Simmons 1L., C. B. Swift uC., L. O. Woole '12, W. S. Worcester...
...Hill's intellect was swift and subtle in its operation, frank and uncompromising in its expression. His critical powers were keen and accurate, and they had been trained to practical uses by his study of the law and his experience as a newspaper correspondent. His talent for detecting the besetting sin of a young writer and for characterizing it in a pungent phrase amounted to genius. His vivacity was amazing. He came to each day's tasks as fresh as if he had never been through them before. Often as he had to say the same things, he never said...