Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given a rare Homecoming. In the stands as guest of honor was Patrick John O'Dea, Wisconsin captain in 1898 and 1899, often considered the greatest kicker the game ever developed. Most prodigious feat: in the 1898 game against Northwestern, played in a raging blizzard, he sent a drop-kick between goalposts 62 yd. away. Originally an Australian rugby player, O'Dea disappeared in 1919, was supposed to have joined Australian troops, been killed in action in France. Two months ago in California he revealed his identity to newshawks, explained his assumption of another name by the fact...
...temperature. He asked his friend Ferdinand Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards for help. Dr. Brickwedde obtained a gallon of liquid hydrogen, evaporated it to one cubic centimetre, bottled it, sent it to Dr. Urey at Columbia. Dr. Urey and George Murphy, his associate, put the precious drop in a vacuum tube, shot an electric current through it until it glowed brightly, split up the light with a diffraction grating. Three years ago this week, on Thanksgiving Day, they found the spectrum lines of heavy hydrogen exactly where they had predicted...
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, and the Harvard Band has excelled in its savage-soothing this fall. From the drop of the hat at the Bates game, they have consistently outfought their opposition, formed more and bigger letters on the field, and completely hypnotized the audience with their symphonic renderings. New uniforms of surpassing beauty have been obtained, the drum major has dropped his baton but a single time, and excepting the persistent bashfulness of the big drum between the halves, the job has been exceptionally well done...
This meeting is another expression of indignation by a group of undergraduates who consider the treatment of the Karlsruhe and Hanfstaengl prisoners unfair. Last Monday two delegations made an unsuccessful visit to District Attorney Foley to ask him to drop charges against the Karlsruhe demonstrators...
Take, for example, last year's Intercollegiate Epee championship team, which was composed of none other than our own Harvard representatives, Webster F. Williams, Jr. '35, and Edward E. Langenau '35. Suppose, for a minute, that Williams should win all of his bouts this year, that Langenau should drop one, and that the new man on the three-man team should lose two. They would be rated A, B, and C, respectively...