Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before the opening of the college term, and cutting down the schedule to make this possible. It may also be advisable to abandon such forms of advertising as have been seen on subway billboards, which rather vitiates any claim that revenue is not sought after by but is merely thrust upon the Athletic Association...
College is the preparation for the Battle of Life. We have heard the sentiment more than once. We subscribe to its validity, more or less. Therefore, does it not seem more profitable that we chew on the soap and rubbers of collegiate liberalism rather than that we be thrust, ignorant and untutored, into an unpaternal world of which we know nothing? Under a liberal policy in college, we may learn not to snap at old dogs' ears when we go forth into the world. And there, certainly, lies the value of a liberal tradition. F. W. GERHART '25. December...
...Sophomore class is, as a rule, well represented on the first University squad and has many enthusiastic rooters who want to see their classmates win. These second year men are justly proud of their class as a class and of their friends as players. Why should they be thrust aside with one ticket, and a poor one at that, simply because the outside demand has become greater? This increasing demand for tickets, presumably from graduates, is doubtless a result of the growing importance of the H-Y game as a social function. Should the satisfying of this social craving...
Freshman, are you looking for advice? No, you have enough thrust upon you without seeking it. We sympathize with you because the advice you have already received is as nothing to that which you have yet to absorb or reject. Nevertheless we have this...
...good differentiation. Soon terror is spread in the heart of the hero and the reader is prepared for a critical scene full of danger. We are disappointed at this point to find the hero relieves himself from the embarrassment of a piston in the hands of a pirate being thrust in his ribs by "absently, and almost reminiscently, removing the piston from his hand and backing away, pointing it at the crowd." It is difficult to forgive the writer for this after having laid his scene of blaspheme and gore...