Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale, more erratic, yet with a better scoring record than the Crimson, chose to adopt practically a five-man defense against her foe, last week-end. These tactics set at naught the almost astonishing team-work of the Harvard forwards and contrived to tire the Crimson players. Harvard undoubtedly showed greater control of the puck, but had it not been for the watchful defense work of Crosby, MacGregor, and deGive, the sallies of Fletcher, Cookman, and Bostwick, might well have skyrocketed the Yale score to a winning figure. Only by sending in Putnam, able puck-carrier, at right defense...
...Irrepressible Secretary Hurley last week clashed with Democratic John Jacob Raskob. Declared Mr. Raskob in New York: "I have good information that President Hoover will run on a Prohibition referendum platform if his party should adopt such a platform." Retorted Mr. Hurley: "Mr. Raskob is in a position to speak much more accurately of the amount of money he and his associates have spent slandering and misrepresenting the President than he is of the President's views on the 18th Amendment. . . . I'm not speaking for the President and I don't think anyone else...
...adopt the League of Nations Draft Proposal for a Disarmament Conference as the basis of their future efforts, but with emendations proposable by any or all of the 57 nations...
...tutorial, are in operation concurrently, one entrenched and thoroughly developed by time, custom, and knowledge, the other, so far as Harvard is concerned, still young and experimental. Interest therefore attaches to the recent vote of the President and Fellows, duly sanctioned by the Overseers, "to approve and adopt the recommendation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that . . . the number of courses required for the degree of A.B. or S.B. be reduced to fifteen in addition to prescribed English for all candidates who graduate in not less than four years in fields having general examinations...
...members have blacklisted certain warehouses, wholesale grocers for refusing to cooperate; they have forced brokers and others in the sugar trade to open their books to the Institute's detectives and accountants; they have induced or compelled beet sugar refiners (none of whom belong to the Institute) to adopt many of their rules, thus restricting their competition. Item: these lawless practices helped sugar refiners to increase their margin of profit 30%, take it out of the public's pocket. To prove their point Lawyers Fly & Rice compared two refiners' profits for 1928, the Institute's first year, with 1927. Biggest...