Word: accustoming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nineteen members of the University nine will leave for Brooklyn, where the third game of the Princeton series is scheduled to be played on Ebbett's Field. The team will reach New York this afternoon, and will be put through a short work-out in order to accustom the players to the Brooklyn National League diamond. The game will begin at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon...
...German people, be hard!" exclaims Hindenberg. That is the ultimate appeal, but a people that has been fed on military victory does not cheerfully accustom itself to a diet of defeat. That was not the way Hindenberg himself talked six months ago when he boasted that he would be in Paris April 1 and that the war would be over in midsummer. Even he must perceive that it is no mere cloud that hangs over Germany, but the Twilight of the Gods. New York World...
...Wednesday afternoon shortly after their arrival at New Haven, the University crew motored to Derby, on the Housatonic river, where Saturday's race will be rowed. Coach Haines put the men through a stiff workout to accustom them to the new course and to the shell that has been rerigged for their...
Balloons fall into three general classes: the ordinary balloon, the kite balloon and the "blimp," or English type of lighter-than-air machine. The simple balloon is now used almost entirely for training purposes, to accustom the airmen in the handling of their craft. The type of balloon termed the "kite" is known more familiarly as the observation balloon. On the western front these airships hover over the armies, remaining in a nearly stationary position for long periods of time. They thus are poised for a fixed view of the enemy activities and can communicate movements of troops and other...
Thirty-five candidates reported for the first informal hockey practice held in the Boston Arena yesterday afternoon. R. E. Gross '19, coach of the Freshmen, took charge of practice. During the first part of the period the men skated around the rink to accustom themselves to the artificial surface. Actual practice began when Gross chose four sets of forward lines and sent them down the ice against varied defence combinations. Emphasis was laid on accuracy and sureness rather than on speed, the men being coached to play slowly and carefully and to remain in their positions. After this the defencemen...