Word: yoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be issued daily, and a congress elected to discuss just what the Harvard Chapter of the Liberty League was going to do. This last might prove the only obstacle to a movement which should, by rights, sweep across the country like "The Music Goes 'Round," or the recent yo-yo fad; but just as lack of leaders cannot be allowed to deflect the stream, lack of a plan should be lightly brushed away until officers were elected and salaries discussed to the satisfaction...
...Penn's game until the middle of the last quarter when a sophomore back named Jack White, star of last year's freshman team, trotted into the Princeton backfield. He spurred it down the field in a yo-yd. march, carried the ball across the goal line, held it while Sandbach kicked the extra point that won, 7-to-6. Other major games...
Beck v. Versailles. Vastly different was the impact on the League of Nations last week of that stern, ramrod-backed bean pole in human form, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck. Only when the craze for yo-yo tops struck Warsaw two years ago was Colonel Beck seen really to unbend, pumping his yo-yo up & down on its string with pleased dexterity. In the past year the Colonel has been on dangerous ground and he trod it firmly last week...
...number 1 tells of the surprising discovery of a riddled, stabbed, and stuffed body in the Yard. It also deals with the promotion of Charles R. Apted '06 to an important position in the United States Navy and the victory of Willie Bingham over Eddie Mays in the annual Yo Yo Championship. The comedy is concluded with a slanderous calendar of the initial doing of 1937 in Harvard...
...moved slowly forward, playing jazz. The marchers sang: "I can't give you anything but love, father." Between hymns they chanted steadily: "He is God, he is God, he is God." Silently the sidewalk world listened, stared. The procession arrived at the Harlem Hospital. "Get up out of yo' beds. Get up an' be healed," shouted a girl's voice. "He is God," intoned the others. Overhead hung the red autogiro. After two hours marching, they streamed into great, dim Rockland Palace, praying, chanting, sweating. They began to stamp their feet. Divine appeared. "Oh Father Divine...