Word: waists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professor in jack boots bracing himself waist deep against the current of a mountain stream and playing a trout with the gusto and skill of a true sportsman seems a most amazing disruption of the proprieties. Scarcely less startling is the discovery of a member of the faculty deep in a thrilling murder story or a scholar of the classics telling after-dinner stories at which the listener cannot help laughing...
Last night there was a meeting for all oarsmen rowing 4, 5, and 6 on the more important crews with the Graduate Committee on Waist Men. The meeting was of the same type as that held last week for the bow men and was intended to offer an opportunity for discussion and criticism of the work of these...
...stronger the College will be. The evidence of the fault may be taken from less consequential things as well as from more. The presence of an additional button on the coat beyond that pictured in current tailor's advertisements, a variation in the height of the belted waist-line, a slight inaccurary in sighting the line of the part of the hair--any of these may as possible be a mark of independent thinking and presumable distinction as they may be an indication of moral turpitude or social outlawry. I submit this argument for the consideration of those undergraduate individuals...
...third, however, the better team play and greater shooting and skating ability of the school team was evinced. Davis and Sargent between them managed to tally three times more. P. W. Butman scored the Freshman team's only goal three minutes before the close of the game on a waist high shot from the left side of the rink. A minute later Davis completed his quota by driving in a beautiful long shot from directly in front of the goal...
Emmons made the first score of the evening on an intercepted pass which he carried up to the All-Star goal for a shot which slipped by Donahue waist high. Three minutes later Irving Small in the Boston defense made the final tally for the first period when the took a long-distance shot from directly in front of the Crimson goal which flashed in by Holmes at full speed...