Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Murray, who was captain and quarter back of the 1919 Harvard eleven and who has been scouting Michigan this fall, gave the squad a talk on the various Wolverine formations. There was no demonstration of these plays, but this afternoon will undoubtedly find the Crimson eleven's in a brief skeleton drill against the Ann Arbor team's attack...
...there was no Borger, Tex. Then from deep-driven pipes in Hutchinson County spurted oil. Today Borger is a city of 10,000, county seat of Hutchinson, a slovenly clutter sprawling over the prairie with a main street two miles long. In this motley oil town's brief career have been committed 40 murders, with not a single conviction. The killing of District Attorney John A. Holmes last month finally prodded Governor Dan Moody to declare martial law in Borger, to send in National Guardsmen of the 56th Cavalry Brigade under the command of Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters...
...brief hold-up occurred over hexamethylenetetramine (derivative of formaldehyde and ammonia used in medicine and vulcanized rubber) when Generalissimo Smoot could not pronounce it. Ink rates fell suddenly with a great black splash over the regulars. Epsom salts collapsed feebly under the jabbing attack of the Coalition...
Coach Bachman's squad held a brief workout in the Stadium yesterday afternoon while the University team was given a day of rest. All the Florida players, with the exception of Goodbread, halfback, are ready for action. Goodbread is suffering from a leg injury which may keep the 190-pound sprint star on the side-lines. Should he be unable to play, Dorsett, known as "Million Dollar Monk", will take his place
...college has shown that alumni education is a field which is pregnant with possibilities, but which has been far too long neglected. To make such a scheme of adult education an assured success involves changing the view, that the college has fulfilled its purpose in the four brief years of academic life...