Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Joseph Stubbs '20 has his team in good condition for the strenuous campaign facing the Harvard skaters in the next four weeks. The next game in the series of preparatory struggles for the crucial Dartmouth and Yale games is set for Saturday, when the University stick-handlers will journey to Buffalo to meet the Nichols Club team. HARVARD ST. FRANCIS Tudor, l.w. r.w., McKinnon Chase, c. c., Coleman Giddins, r.w. l.w., McNeil Saltonstall, l.d. r.d., McCann Howard, r.d. l.d., Boyle Morrill, g. g., Miller
...history of English legal polity is replete with prosecutions, in all of which the picture of a tyrannical and brutal trial judge occupies the most lurid position in the public mind. Especially the prosecutions in Ireland toward the close of the eighteenth century at the crucial stage of the American legal system threw its dark cloud upon the young nation looking for guidance. Consequently, in view of the abominations perpetrated under the name of the common law judges of Great Britain and the popular prejudice of the times against them, it is small wonder that the American attitude of regarding...
Lord Derby, as Secretary of State for War (1916-18 & 1922-24), and British Ambassador at Paris (1918-20), has proved his "fitness" by sustained, dynamic statesmanship. If, during crucial War years, not even the Secretary of State for War could touch his toes, what may be the state of England's great men in present times of peace? This question, mildly savoring of treason vitiated the British press all week, while reporters tried vainly to get other great men to affirm or deny that they can touch their toes. Cagy politicians refused to answer, but Mr. George Bernard...
...must be prepared to fight. If the state secures the removal of Mrs. Hammonds, it is not certain that the victory will be so sweet. If her power is that of a "superior mental force, as a certain group of citizens say, the situation is rather more humiliating than crucial. And if the power behind the throne is really that of Rosicrucianism, who can consistently deny a place in politics to a cult of belief in alchemy...
Fatal weakening of the defense in crucial moments cost the Harvard Freshman Soccer team its game with Andover yesterday afternoon on Soliders Field. In the first three minutes of play, Andover scored two goals before the Freshmen warmed to their work. The first-year men then tightened their defense, and kept the schoolboys at bay. The Freshmen scored once in the middle of the game, but let down in the last five minutes of play, and allowed Andover to tally twice again. The final score stood 4 to 1 in favor of the schoolboys...