Word: center
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the national applecart thus upset, each of Poland's three political tycoons (Dmowski, Right; Witos, Center; Pilsudski, Left) encouraged his followers to set him up as dictator. Correspondents cabled that "anything might happen." Interest centred in fire-eating, swashbuckling Josef Pilsudski, a former (the second) President of the Rzeczpospolita Palska. He was exiled to Siberia (1887-1892) for plotting to assassinate the Tsar; and during the World War the Germans succeeded in catching and imprisoning him. When at liberty, he delights to organize bands of "patriots," train them in gymnastic sokols (clubs) and lead them on ill-considered expeditions...
...safe blow. His successor, Chase played a brilliant defensive game against Bowdoin, handling four chances without a slip, and heads the infielders at present with a clean slate. The fielding of Ullman and Chase gives the second sackers a heavy lead in defensive averages and show the center of the diamond as the strongest point in the Crimson defense...
Plans are also in progress to lodge some of the Law Students in the New Business dormitories, if it is found that the men are willing to live at such a distance from the center of the School...
...Harvard were divided into colleges numbering about 300 students apiece, individuality would get a chance to assert itself once more. Instruction would become personal, and intra-mural sports the main athletic activity. All without loss of the advantages of the larger center...
Burns, speedy Sophomore center fielder, will also be out of today's fray. The injury he received in the Wesleyan game is rapidly healing, and Burns will be in uniform today, but until flyers limp disappears entirely, it is unlikely that Coach Mitchell will call upon him. Jones, captain of the 1928 diamond outfit, has been acting as lead-off man in Burns' place during the southern invasion. In the two games against the Navy and Catholic University, he poled out five hits for an average of .500, and he will patrol center field and head the Crimson attack this...