Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Pound is proud of the fact that he has never worn an overcoat. "Heat and cold don't bother me." Physically robust, he was able to run the mile in less than five minutes when he was over 50. When he first came to Harvard he was accustomed to take a daily run around the present site of Langdell, which was then an open plot of ground known as Holmes Field. Combining his fondness for exercise with an intense interest in American history, he spent the summers from 1912 to 1920 hiking over the battlefields of the Civil...
...each blasted in a kick, and the Varsity led 3 to 1 with 38 minutes left to play. Tufts came fighting back, however, and Feeney got his team's second goal with two minutes left to go in the third period. The fourth period found both teams pretty well worn out from playing in the sizzling heat, and the play settled down to a ragged defensive battle with Bob Purinton and Dick Forster, the Crimson fullbacks, and Dick Harshman, the goalie, saving several potential goals...
...books, the most distinctive feature of the Grolier Book Shoppe is its well-worn sofa. Apparently an ordinary piece of furniture, it has been warmed by the posteriors of the most erudite inmates of the ivy-covered squirrel-cage. This indeterminable-hued divan has sustained the weight of the wearer of the blackest, thickest-rimmed glasses among Cambridge cognoscenti. It has also supported innumerable bodies beneath as many heads holding rimless spectacles, prime among these being Cairnie himself. For sitting comfort, the Grolier ottoman is approached only by the bootblack stand at Felix's Shoe Shine Spa, and there...
...five minute overtime periods followed but although most of the play was in WPI territory, the Crimson team, by this time thoroughly worn out, could not chalk up the winning goal...
...born to people whose last name begins with a letter beyond G in the alphabet is in for the dirty end of the deal. Since men from A through G only are welcome at the first tea, by Wednesday the women are likely to be second-hand and shop-worn; obviously, it is unfair, and absolutely unpredictable, to judge a Radcliffian not at her very best...