Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Following this, the first and second teams played a twenty-minute game, in which the former scored seven goals to its opponents' one. The two sets of defence were fairly evenly matched, but the University forwards, especially Hicks and Morgan, were much faster than their opponents and often got clear of the second seven forwards. The passing and team-play yesterday was far better than that in Saturday's game, chiefly owing to the presence of Morgan at right centre...
...English used. It is frequently so completely ignored that the grade of A is given on a paper in which the sense is almost obscured by the fine scorn of the first elements of composition. The only way in which a man may hope to write good, clear English is by acquiring the habit of so doing. And it is perfectly useless to put him through a year or more of training in composition if he loses the habit as soon as he completes the course, for the mere reason that respectable English is not insisted upon in his later...
William Vaughn Moody's the "Faith Healer" is a play which will never make a wide appeal, but the appeal will be all the deeper where it is felt. The situation is too outside our ordinary experience to be clear at once. It deals with the subtle psychic forces in our lives, the certain, but, as yet, not understood influence of character upon character...