Word: differents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Literary Review of 'the New York Evening Post places Dr. Crofters' book in a list suitable for the Seventh Age of Reading, for those who are post their prime and have reached the age of at least sixty. It takes all my slight remainder of youthful courage to differ from so high an authority and recommend "The Dame School of Experience" to-a much less aged audience. Essays need not so much age for their enjoyment as a conversational altitude of mind; and there has always been enough talk at Harvard, if not real conversation, to justify such a recommendation...
...rules as to fouls are varied. The A. A. U. rules, which govern intercollegiate games, differ from those used in professional leagues in that the one-hand dribble is mandatory in one and not in the other. Then there are some differences in the rules among the professional leagues and in this connection I might cite an instance regarding the throwing of free baskets from the foul line as practiced in the old New York State League and the Eastern League of Pennsylvania. In the New York State League it was provided that the man who was fouled should make...
...body of Terence MacSwiney was borne past the City Hall at Cork, soldiers stationed there came to attention and their officers saluted. Opinions differ widely as to the wisdom of the Sinn Fein movement and as to its ultimate bearing upon the happiness of Ireland; but true men everywhere will join in that token of respect and admiration. To MacSwiney the liberal measure of freedom which Great Britain offers, and the prosperity which has already been achieved, are as nothing in comparison with the territorial and military independence of his people; and in that conviction he made every sacrifice...
...doubted if the contest will attract as much attention as the recent football game at Pasadena and yet to those interested in educational matters the event cannot but be of interest. Will we see at Sanders Theatre on the twenty-first a different style of debating than that to which we are used? Probably not, because after all forensic discussion is thousands of years older than football, and the style has not varied much during the centuries. The men who meet Washington will not wear togas which they will loop up with their left hand while they use the right...
...meet today will differ from the ordinary airplane race in that all the flying activities will be directly over the field and in full view of the spectators...