Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Records of automobiles struck by lightning are rare. Says an international authority on thunderstorms, Sir George Clarke Simpson, Director of the British Meteorological Office, people riding in an automobile with an all-steel top are practically immune from lightning, even though the automobile itself may be struck. The movement of the car does not affect its chances of being hit. Safe rule in a thunderstorm: drive slowly...
Years of experience with major and minor college outbreaks have given the local force an uncanny knowledge of how best to get undergraduate goats and how worst to handle undergraduate groups. Student-baiting has become an art, a highly specialized though somewhat contradictory phase of law enforcement. And Thursday night the force outdid itself...
...blighter, so can I. I'd challenge him to a blighting contest tomorrow if I thought it would do any good. But I guess If Harvard's going to act like that there's very little I can do about it. I hereby lay even money, though, that Downer turns out to be a very dynamo of energy, and as for his being a blighter, I'll bet he's a quivering mass of social graces. --The Yale Daily News...
...than they could digest in the way of open football. Fundamentals were not neglected in the first three weeks of practice, but these fundamentals were not in evidence Saturday. If Harlow taught much of the blocking by using the new mirrors, then the mirrors ought to be scrapped-- gently, though, because it's bad luck to break mirrors...
...this year it was Patty's day. While Mrs. Page, green-shy after taking three putts on the very first hole, flubbed around the greens, Patty, wearing trousers, played as though she had her ball mesmerized. In the afternoon round, with her mother nervously watching from the fringe of the crowd, she got seven one-putt greens in 13 holes, avenged last year's defeat on the 31st green...