Word: webster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Webster defines a reaction primarily as 'the force which a body opposes to a force acting upon it.' According to this definition, I have experienced no reactions to my reception at Harvard, for I certainly have not offered any opposition to the great Crimson force which has swept me along in its wide current, just as the turbulent mountain torrent whirls the tender sapling which has fallen into its power along the precipitous and oft-times fatal course...
...Noah Webster...
Certain readers are ever fond of rushing into print and obscuring the points at issue. Would Mr. Young [TIME, Oct. 5, LETTERS], tell me in what dictionary he found "bathysophical" ? I have searched in vain in Webster's, Stormonth, The Century, Concise Oxford, Pocket Oxford, and if I had access to the great Oxford I am not so sure that I should have found...
...first time this season; Butterworth, who has been acting captain, is out with an injury. Coach Jones has shifted the Yale line considerably since last Saturday. Today Joss and Benton will be at tackle in place of Butterworth and Richards, with the latter taking over Root's guard position. Webster, also former tackle, is at the other guard vice Wortham, and Burt replaces Sturhahn at center...
...ushers representing the University are F. P. Kane '26, R. H. Dyer '26, A. H. O'Neil '28, W. L. Tibbetts '26, W. I. Nichols '26, and Le B. R. Barker '26, D. J. Worthington, C. E. Allen, J. P. St. Clair, C. D. Webster, F. N. Blodgett, E. C. McClintock have been named the Dartmouth ushers...