Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much to be done, particularly in rounding out the offense, but the Michigan game produced a higher caliber of play by a Harvard team than has any other major game during Horween's four years at Cambridge Harvard was beaten at Ann Arbor, it is true, but it came back from the first trip to "Big Ten" territory with a heads-up attitude, and if left behind a profound respect for the work that Horween has accomplished. I have criticized Harvard teams that Horween has coached, but there was no adequate reason for any' criticism of the midwestern defeat...
...Harby, Jr. '33, Crimson full back, was outstanding for the losers. While his punting was not equal to that of Sampson, Dartmouth fullback, he shone consistently on the defense. Bernard Feins '33, Freshman right halfback who got in during the fourth quarter, was the only serious threat the Crimson possessed. He made several good gains, which were futile, however, when offside penalties followed. J. R. Leonard '33, right halfback whom Feins replaced, proved himself a stellar player on the offense...
Like a great pumping plant is the U. S. Postal service, pumping current periodicals from the country's publishing reservoirs to individual subscribers. Inevitably a certain amount of the flow is impeded in transit by obsolete or illegible addresses, torn wrappers, clerical stupidity. Undelivered copies of national magazines back up in central post offices like windfalls at a beaverdam. Lately the Post Office Department has authorized postmasters to sell off windfall magazines at public auction...
...very commonsensical from the Post Office point of view. To the indigent reading public it doubtless seemed a fine and thoughtful Federal service. But the publishers of national magazines were sore vexed when lately, they found out what was going on. Any thriving magazine has a constant demand for back numbers. Thrifty, self-respecting publishers are at pains to recover all unsold or undelivered copies. The National Publishers Association registered a sharp protest with Postmaster-General Brown, who referred the matter to slender Arch Coleman, his First Assistant. Publishers were particularly agitated by the possibility that the Post Office...
...general problems of science more clearly insoluble. In astronomy, physics, biology, lengthy strides have been made in the last 20 years toward the realization that man knows less and less about more and more. Scientists to whom science is more than an enthralling game are consequently ''turning back." the Pragmatists to Philosophy, the mystics to Religion...