Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hand is worth two in the trousers. Make a few disparaging remarks on your suit--you will not be the first--and don't forget that if you are going to give your clothes away it's a great deal better to know it than to think you've struck a good bargain with...
...football games are printed these words, "No application will be accepted unless a signature card has been previously sent in." As to what these signature cards are, or where they can be obtained nothing is said. Graduates and undergraduates alike are left in the dark-some think the applications are themselves the signature cards, while others remember signature cards filed last year and wonder whether these are still valid. The lack of sufficient explanation about the signature cards has led to a good deal of confusion...
...believe that Phi Beta Kappa is now a more powerful influence than any other to enlist undergraduate interest in scholarship. The fact that the Office grades are not the sole standard of election is perhaps a strong factor in this influence. But we think that it could make itself a still greater power for intellectual achievement if the suggestions made were adopted. It would be indeed a source of regret if the suggestion of a possible improvement should be interpreted as adverse criticism of so valuable an organization...
...that "Skinny" Hinks, the boy, is really the child that Lirty had left when he died in the hospital. The remainder of the act tells of Martha's attempts to secure work in the mill in order to see the children, how the foreman and a director think her an investigator and refuse, and how "Skinny" tries to run away from his "father" and live with the "niggers who don't have to work." He has been put at a warping machine which is working very badly and has killed two men the week before, and fear of it spurs...
Paragraphs B and C were supplemented by providing in each case that it must not have touched the ground in either case. By eliminating the clause "and before the ball has been touched by a player of either side" in section 6 of the same rule, the officials think that they will be able to prevent a scramble for the ball on the side lines...