Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people" are unusually stupid. Newspapers warn them of impending danger day after day; yet like the mouse exploring the depths of the sinster, red wooden trap, they persist stubbornly in following prejudice rather than good sense. Today if Mr. Murphy wins as he deserves to, it will be in spite of those who are "die-hard" Republicans, men as well as women...
...Harvard football men are allowed four seats each, and these applications together with the applications of the Class of '79, ex-graduate treasurers, overseers, and members of the Athletic Committee, numbered 1325 seats. These were assigned to Sections 24 and 35, and in addition, 31 were placed in the wooden seats on the track of Section...
...ball quivers and starts to go down the field. A mighty shout goes up. Then something happens, and the ball stops, looks, listens and and turns in the other direction. Loud groans. A wooden slide in the mechanism of the scoreboard rattles into place, upside down. Agile spectators figure out that it says "Pass failed...
...thing has been overlooked in the cheering for the Yale game. The Freshmen and Sophomores who applied for two seats and received only one, located in the wooden stands have been forgotten. As one of these unfortunates, I want to suggest that a cheer leader be assigned to the wood stands, that we also may lift our voices to acclaim the Crimson Warriors...
...chance to which their classmates play; they have had their teams, this is ours. Granting that a student can show his loyalty as well with one ticket as with two, he might at least be allowed something better than the dregs of the bowl or the skyline of the wooden stands...