Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never gathered a large following. His was always the righteously indignant voice of the protesting minority. His followers deserted him at crucial moments. He joined the ill-fated Progressive Movement of 1912. For years he has been a minority candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination. But his trouble was that lie could not work continuously with able assistants. In the words of Edward G. Lowry* he has " no facility for mutual easements and accommodations." He is a leader of the insurgents because he is their prototype, their most explosive dynamite. But a weaver of a stout party...
With two games still to be played, the Pennsylvania eleven is almost certain of the championship this year. A 3-2 victory over Princeton last week was the crucial game, putting Pennsylvania into a tie for first place with the Tigers. Pennsylvania must only win or tie either of its remaining two games to clinch the championship...
...objective next Saturday has no reason to be utterly discouraged--less reason, as far as the respective Brown games are concerned, than last year. On Saturday Harvard showed, as it has shown all season, great potential power; it failed because it did not use this power at crucial moments to best advantage...
...surprised world-in-general grasped one fact: he had been an Alpine climber. It overlooked the fact that the new Pope? Pius XI?had been acting as Papal nuncio in Poland, which, from the point of view of the Roman Catholic Church, was, after the War a most crucial province...
Third Game. Pitchers Nehf (Giants) and Jones (Yankees) dueled. Fielder Stengel waited until the seventh inning before interpolating his second crucial homerun for the Giants. As he trotted around the bases, Stengel wiggled his fingers at Pitcher Jones. Score: Giants 1, Yankees...