Word: tobogganing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those hardy souls who, if a loftier goal than mere enjoyment did not detain them in Cambridge, would be enjoying the sled runs of Chamonix the toboggan slides of Quebec or even the ski jump at Hanover, can now find a slightly milder joy on the river. From the Lars Anderson Bridge up to Watertown the ice is frozen, and one may choose whether he will frequent the brightly-lighted, windswept expanse near Newell, or go adventuring among the dark coves beyond the infirmary...
...Avenue crowds, ticker tape, rollercoasters, etc. In similar designs are printed linens and other fabrics for drawing-room hangings. Graphic art is represented in the work of F. V. Carpenter. He has designed a pattern portraying Manhattan's shopping district with its pedestrians & automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners blowing saxophones or beating drums. Sil-houet prints contrast the curves of a roller-coaster runway with the straight lines...
...pleasant to be beaten continuously but it is a good thing for Harvard if it will awaken the undergraduate body to a realization of what is wrong there. Graduates who know the West realize that the stupid toryism which is putting New England on the toboggan industrially, for years with few and short intervals has had its dead hand on Harvard athletics. If intercollegiate sports are a good thing get the men who can teach you to win your share of contests. There is no virtue in any qualification other than the ability to win in a sportsmanlike manner...
...franc teetered sickeningly last week, plunged from 31½% to the dollar to 35 1/3, steadied, gathered strength, skyrocketed to 30¾%. Though explanations were many, two facts stood out sharply. Just before the franc's toboggan, Finance Minister Peret was obliged to announce that pourparlers for definitely funding the Franco-British debt had broken down between himself and Chancellor Winston Churchill of the British Exchequer at London. Conversely, the franc rose as soon as the French Cabinet and the Bank of France announced, after M. Peret's return to Paris from London, that the French Government would, if necessary, employ...
...next points which Major Beith discussed were the tendencies of the stage today, "The question is not whether the stage is better or worse," he said, "but whether it is worse than usual. The stage has followed the course of a toboggan shoot since the time of Greek drama. In England, even Shakespeare and his contemporaries could not bring it back to that level. Playwrights and actors were not recognized socially until. Sir Henry lrving was knighted 20 years ago. England's stage is just recovering from the blow dealt it by the reaction after Cromwell and the Reformation...