Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most handicap meets, the best men didn't always wind up on top; in fact in some events they were shut out completely, when additional inches and feet were added to original efforts of some of the eventual winners...
...subversive rumor was in the wind. It was noised about that one of the Houses was fielding a pair of identical twins, one of whom wields a potent wand at the plate. Opponents began considering the possibilities...
...made the mistake of proceeding with various proposals without seriously attempting to bring House membership into the selection process. Next Thursday the masters will meet with Provost Buck, and final machinery will swing into motion; few undergraduates will even have known that anything was in the wind. Here was a "natural" for securing interested cooperation from House residents and simultaneously forwarding House-consciousness. Instead the discussion and the decisions have been largely in the hands of tutorial staffs--although one master remarked that he had consulted briefly with his House Committee chairman...
Heralded by notices like "The French reply to Gone with the Wind,'" the latest Gallic sereon offering matches previous imports in honesty and verve. Cut from four hours to two and a half, "Children of Paradise" still lacks the poignant simplicity of "The Well-digger's Daughter," but makes up for it in a vertical spread of character from shaming beggars to Counts in Turkish baths...
Acting in a typical buildoggish manner, it appears, the Record's editors somehow got wind of the project, telephoned local distributors to get out the issue ahead of time, and spent Saturday and Sunday rubbing their hands in glee...