Word: backed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...confine their games to each other. There can be no valid objection to any two of these institutions playing each other in the first game of the season. There would be schedule difficulties, of course, due to the fact that the season is short and that teams cannot travel back and forth without limit. There would be no danger to two big teams playing early in the season because the development of the teams would be equal, inasmuch as practice starts about the same time everywhere. The details of the plan are too complex to be settled by one person...
...wrestling manager for next year has not yet been chosen. It is quite likely that L. A. Watkins '21 will act as manager again. Prospects for next year's team are unusually bright as Captain J. M. MacDonell will be back in College, as well as the rest of this year's wrestlers...
...because bourgeoisie and Philistines are in mortal terror of his intellect. Money-grubbers and little-brothers-to-the-rich feel in his indigence a power which deprives them of breath. It is part of the show that he should be poor. Dress him in the fashion, slip a yellow-back into his pocket, clap him into a limousine, and, no matter how brilliant he may be, he is useless, he has lost his spell...
Miss Bird plays the aristocratic idealist who refuses to admit that the monarchy cannot be brought back with delicacy. When she finds that she is deceived by Roulette, her heart is broken, but she nevertheless sends him off to fight for her cause, and on hearing of his death, forgives...
...extraordinary heroism near Villers-devant-Dun, France, Nov. 2, 1918. Having been wounded in the back by a machine gun bullet, Corporal Butcher led his squad through heavy machine gun fire, capturing three guns and capturing or killing all of the crews...