Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...play it, one needs only a pair of shoes of any sort with hardy heels, an overcoat for the cool mornings, a fairly fresh supply of alcoholic interior decoration, and a misguided sense of the humorous. With this equipment, which is within the reach of everybody, one may practice almost anywhere on the quieter streets off Massachusetts avenue between the hours of one and three A. M. Find a window, preferably a cellar-window, though one leading to an acquaintance's room is a real delicacy; and slipping up to it unobserved, give it an unexpected but earnest kick...
...York, instead of increasing the size of the copper feeder which would be a very expensive step. A number of these Tungsten lamps have already been tried out, but until they are used throughout, the present trouble will remain. The carbon filaments of the lamps grow dim and almost go out when the train starts, due to the excessive voltage drop in the third rail. The superiority of the Tungsten lamp lies in the fact that its candlepower varies considerably less in proportion to the change in the third rail voltage
...forwards hanging back to help them, were unable to stop the attack of the Yale freshmen, featured by the individual work of Ordway. Although Phillips scored the Freshmen's goal in this half after three forwards had aided in carrying the puck down the rink, it resulted from almost the only sign of team-play by either offence or defence in the half. Yale kept the puck about the Freshman goal practically all the time and made five scores. Their shooting was particularly accurate...
...second period found the teams almost evenly matched, after the substitutions of Washburn and Claflin for Wigglesworth and Handy in the Freshman defence and of Trainer for Claflin in the forward line. Play see-sawed back and forth between one end of the rink and the other, and although the attack of both forward lines became much faster, both defences proved equal to stopping them. Toward the end of the half Yale scored again on a lucky shot past Washburn, thus making the final score...
...team was now at almost top form--Sortwell had shown much improvement on the wing, Huntington's following back was beyond criticism and the defence was almost impregnable. The two great defects of the organization were; first, the defence had difficulty in getting the puck out of the corners; and second, there was no one man who could dribble the puck through a whole team...