Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...representing their colleges in athletics if they have taken part in any competitive sport at the college from which they transfer are obviously unjust. With the present high scholastic standing required for eligibility at most of the better colleges, the one year rule is quite sufficient to discourage the tramp athlete. Let us hope for the time when a man will be no longer mistrusted and prevented from getting the most out of his college life simply because he happens to have a liking for and some ability in athletic competition...
...best property, none of the better instincts. Colonel Oliver Perry Morton Hollis and his dark, haughty daughter, Ruth, represent the town's historical background. They have the better instincts, but their property is bred out. A nice, crude, straightforward narrative is contrived by dragging in a hero-tramp with a fraternity pin, two trig scoundrels right out of Horatio Alger, a sleepy attorney who makes small-town small talk, a Chicago magnate who turns out to be a detective. Fists fly, autos are stolen, the big dam gets dynamited, ruining fat Pence. The Hollises ride the flood back...
...witchcraft that he used? Vanished worlds arose from the graves of time to live again in pomp and pageantry. Homer's heroes exchanged ringing blows on the windy plains of Troy. Armored knights spurred in quest of the Holy Grail. Lear went raving over the heath. A tramp steamer careened across the Indian Ocean shearing spray off her bows, and the dawn came up like thunder.... And on the hard wooden chairs sat hundreds of boys, young barbarians, fascinated, spellbound, many if not most of them realizing, perhaps for the first time in their lives the delight of great literature...
...rotor ship Buckau, with her whirling iron towers, came to anchor in Leith harbor. She had spent approximately six days at sea, bearing a cargo from Danzig via the Kiel Canal?about three days to Kiel and three days from Kiel to Leith. Her time was not good ?tramp steamers make it in about two-thirds the time?but, during the entire voyage, she encountered storm and head winds that put her to a severe test. Moreover, during a good part of the voyage, she used her auxiliary Diesel engine...
...Doubling the floor space will be only one of the advantages of the new building," declared Mr. Cole, manager of the Cooperative Society. "First of all, the building will be at street level, thus doing away with having to tramp up a flight of steps. Secondly, with a new system of arcaded windows, we will have a much greater show window space. Also in the new building the men's furnishings will be moved from the second to the first floor. Thus the three big departments, the stationery, book, and men's furnishings will all be on the same floor...