Word: tonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outside game is necessary because it serves as a beneficial tonic to a morale that tends to become dispirited through the monotony of playing the same teams. In keeping with this attitude those in charge have arranged outside games for both the class and dormitory teams. The former have played Cambridge Latin, Rindge Technical, Boston English, Boston Latin, Brown & Nichols, Tabor Academy and Mechanic Arts; the latter have met the Andover Seconds, South Boston, Brown & Nichols, Thayer Academy and St. Paul's School. In the inter-class league, the informal outside games were preliminary to the objective class series...
...time times he had ever "compromised," "shirked," "chucked it"-all the time he had let himself yield to soft, narcotic impulses in preference to harder, more tonic impulses-all the softness he had ever let form within himself-all that had waited till then to come back on him. That had been the one Voice; the mean hateful...
...effect of their daily newspaper may be tonic or it may be naroctic--according to whichever need and taste they themselves bring to it. And their reading of a daily newspaper can become tonic and not narcotic in the degree that they read it primarily for news...
...clanked out of Hamburg harbor for the coast of Poland. The Falke's crew became interested three days later, when they rolled idly off a Polish beach at dawn while motor boats came out to meet them carrying 125 swart, excitable passengers smelling of rum and perfumed hair tonic, speaking Spanish...
...from Cushites to Harlemites. In the syncopated moments of that history there is such brazen, delicious gusto as whites never attain. The humor is racially familiar and pleasing. One disconsolate Negro moans: "I'm the blackest ball on the table." But the company is too naive; needs a tonic of finesse to turn its dusky vigor into fine artistry...