Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glad our seats are down heab!...Ah simply adoah watchin' football games...don't you?...Oh no! Ah'm not like the rest of these women heah, Ah don't wanna talk...Ah reckon Ah'm different that a way...Ah just love to watch fo'ward kicks, an field passes 'n' things...Oh is that wheah the Ahmy is sittin'?'...Sho' nuf'?...Ah'm so excited...Ah love the Ahmy...! When Ah was a little kid no biggah than that down home in Gawgia. Ah simply adoahed policemen, the way they went 'stridin' about in brass buttons, and stripes...
After the talk the entire squad, dressed in sweat-clothes, went through a light workout on the field taking things easier than usual. The backs, ends, centers, and linemen all reported to their respective coaches for assignment instructions. A short-signal drill concluded the workout...
Professor Garrod carries on a pleasant tradition in setting aside an afternoon each week to meet and talk informally with men in the University. Scholars such as the Charles Eliot Norton chair brings to Cambridge have much to give which cannot find effective presentation in set lectures. The sort of education and culture which finds its highest expression in a cultivated social intercourse is admittedly more fully developed on the other side of the Atlantic than it is on this newer continent, and visiting professors can add richness and color to a college training by helping American educational institutions...
...winter sports. Once he entered the bull ring himself, emerged with several ribs broken. Besides his two novels he has written two books of short stones (In Our Time, Men Without Women'), a satiric novelette (The Torrents of Spring). He is by no means "litr'ry" in talk or thought, but his writer friends include Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Thornton Niven Wilder...
...current "Cosmopolitan" merely reiterates once more the cry of over-emphasis of college athletics. The unbalanced predominance of sports in American universities is a favorite subject for the criticism of a small army of alarmists who are forever throwing their hands up in horror at the younger generation. They talk about the problem a great deal, but they never do anything about it. They offer no panacea...