Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alpine footpaths. A Dunster student was observed setting up a pup-tent just north of the Lampoon building at dusk the other day; word had come north that the Plympton St. Pass was closed to traffic. Parking automobiles is no longer a science, but a gamble. The insouciant police swing their arms in Harvard Square, the Street Cleaners dig in here, dig in there, the snow piles up in ragged mounds, slashes off, piles up again. The trolley whisk-broom, flicking the dandruff off the shoulders of Mass. Ave., is the only efficient device of its kind in the town...
...home and say Phooey!' Why, that room is so spacious that no witness will ever come within 40 feet of the jury. And the whole thing is air-conditioned. . . . If a juror wants to talk to the fellow in back of him, all he has to do is swing around on his ball-bearing throne, just like a merry-go-round. And what a sense of splendor he will get gazing at the murals and the frescoes...
Long lines of men wound out of Germany and Von Kluck began his race for Paris and the channel ports. But great events swing upon the most trivial axes. A handful of slow moving men came out to meet the onrushing soldiers and the world came to hear of "little Belgium," of Louvain, and of Albert, King of the Belgians...
...considered the best foreign staff of any U. S. paper ready for action. Harry Hansen, now the New York World-Telegram's book critic, followed the German army through Belgium. First description of Big Berthas to reach the U. S. came to the Daily News from Raymond Swing in Berlin. Lewis Edgar Brown was with the Serbian army that retreated through Albania. His reports were re-cabled from Chicago to the London Times. In London, Edward Price Bell got interviews with Lord Grey that were reprinted all over the world. Charles Dennis himself went to Paris...
With eighty-five men signed up for Varsity crew and ninety for Freshman rowing, the crew practice for all men not engaged in winter sports is in full swing...