Word: trodden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supreme in all business affairs, but, like most great men, he has one weakness--his daughter, Rosie. Her character, as portrayed by Catherine Willard, is a contrast between the self-willed rich girl and the "bloomin' angel" who plays Santa Claus to all her father's down trodden employees...
...sickening to see the shameful way the individual is trodden down in this debauched oligarchy of witlessness. At the Fogg Museum this morning, while I was cutting out four illustrations from a book in the library one of the students across the table looked up and threatened to report me if I did not desist. I cleverly conceived an explanation which proved satisfactory and went off with the prints, but the insolence of the thing humiliated me. To have one's very actions questioned,--it's preposterous...
...TRODDEN GOLD-Howard Vincent O'Brien-Little, Brown ($2.00). Mr. O'Brien has an unaccountable grudge against money. On almost every page he takes a nasty crack at it. The story is of two girls, one of whom married a man who quickly became rich. The other married a chemist to whom Science was all and Mammon a despicable deity. A penetrating study of the problem of money and why not to want...
...University track team went into this meet a poor third in the estimation of track followers around Greater Boston, but the day after the meet one of the Boston papers said: "Harvard, poor down-trodden Harvard, showed a fighting spirit which was simply marvelous. Track at the University has evidently taken a turn for the better." The meet amply bore out Coach Bingham's statement that it was second and third place men who won a meet. Both Dartmouth and the University scored more firsts than Cornell, but the latter won the meet with her seconds. Several University runners whom...
...wins the race is usually born with natural ability. The runner up can be developed,--and his points weigh heavily in the final decision. The Crimson showing on Saturday is the result of the new spirit Coach Bingham has given the team. Harvard, "poor down-trodden Harvard," as a Boston newspaper said, "smashed every forecast by its fighting." Development of the "next best" man, which can be brought about by persistent training, will give us victory instead of 'glorious defeats...