Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 10,000 men of Harvard descend from the Stadium on a cold Saturday afternoon this fall and demand sustenance for the inner man, Miss Betty Lee and her 35 undergraduate assistants will ward off the attack with thousands of strictly sanitary "redhot" frankfurters...
Lauriston Ward '03--to be Lecturer on Anthropology for the first half...
Nobody knows. Perhaps a drunkard threw a cigaret in a wastepaper basket. Perhaps there was a short circuit. Perhaps radicals set the blaze. Captain Warms and, by no coincidence, the whole Ward Line leans to the last theory. If arson can be proved, the line will be freed of criminal negligence liability. The owners of the Vestris were sued for $5,000,000 in personal liability claims...
...squared the match on the second, finished his morning round with a 69 that left him 5 up. In the afternoon, he picked up three more holes on the first nine. The holes ran out at the 29th green. Little sank a two-foot putt and Goldman stepped for ward to shake hands...
...Pennsylvania "Dutch" farming country, around Reading; Lancaster and Bethlehem, passing motorists often goggle at barns with three white circles painted on their sides, wonder what they are for. The three circles, which often have other cabalistic signs inside them, are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch insurance to ward off the evil eye from the cattle within. Like other farming communities, this rich and peaceful land has its dark traditions, its hexerei (witchcraft). Energetic Thames Williamson, author of four dramatic novels about four different sections of the U. S., now publishes what he calls "a last regional novel" about the Pennsylvania...