Word: tosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the Watch and Ward Society in a momentary digression. "One could do it by crouching in a dark alley with a slouch cap drawn over his eyes and a chloroform handkerchief in one hand and a pistol in the other ready to jump upon the victim and toss her unconscious into an automobile, and lock her up later in a room, or one can open a cafe and enliven it with music and attract young women there as a miller is drawn toward the light, then fill their veins with wine, till their head is light and their...
...point margin which it maintained until the seventh. The invaders tied it at this point with a single, an error, a sacrifice and another single. In the eighth, the Terriers preceded to put the game on ice. Two were out when Kincaide reached second on Sullivan's toss into the stands, MacDonald singled, and O'Brien hit a home run. In the ninth the Terriers added their final marker, so that Harvard's eleventh hour rally, which netted two runs, fell short of tying the count...
...Oxford men were a shade the heavier. As they swung off from the start, aided by the Surrey-side current that Stroke Pitman had won in the toss, they drew three-quarters of a length ahead with a short, strong stroke, beating 36 to the minute against the 34 of the Cantab boat. Here was work for J. A. Brown. His beautiful steering helped bring Cambridge, rowing smoothly, almost abreast. The Oxford-heavies tried a spurt. At the mile the bows were dead even. Without hitting it up, the smooth-stroking Cantabs drew ahead, pricking Oxford to a fresh spurt...
There is not a great deal of choice between the records of the game should be a toss-up between them. The Crimson team, however, has sustained an usually heavy loss in Thackaberry, star center, and Robinson, former captain and guard. The team that Coach A. W. Samborski '25 is sending in against Yale is a powerful quintet, although it lacks the coordination which it possesses with its regular line-up intact...
...exalt this state of affairs into even higher realms. In the current issue of "Scribner's he recounts the benefits which have accrued to himself and other publishers who have divorced partisanship from their columns. Advertising is booming; circulation has increased. Irate subscribers are no longer constrained to toss his paper across the room because it harrows their political sensibilities. The new policy aims to offend no one--and there is peace...