Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Increased lethal effect is obtained by softening the nose of the bullet to make it spread at impact. Steel jacketed bullets shoot straightest and farthest but bore clean holes instead of smashing a wide wound. Various powder loads have various killing power, but following is a rough table of the calibres and types of bullets generally recommended for various types of killing by rifle...
...present tendency of undergraduates to take to their books. There was danger that the revolutionary idea that college was a place in which to study might actually dominate the student world. In fact, after every encounter with Yale, voices have been raised by Harvard men about the enervating effect of study on members of the team...
...recent issues of the Alumni Bulletin, questioned the procedure of the Dean's office in handling probation. To these gentlemen Assistant Dean Nichols replies in a soothing fashion in the current number of the Bulletin. He parries the assault neatly with a general account of the system in effect, and then thrusts vigorously home with examples and statistics to show the validity of his statements; that "there is nothing arbitrary or automatic about the present method, but that, rather, it is as broad and as flexible as any system can be made...
...their release from United States control. The visitors deplored the growing American imperialistic tendency. They believe that the time has now come for complete independence. The Philippines have reached a point where they can govern themselves: besides, the strong-armed protection by the United States has a weakening effect upon the islanders...
...prove that their country is ready for independence kept its record clear by defeating Harvard last Saturday. So far in their tour of this country the islanders have won the votes of every audience they have faced, and no doubt they hope that such expressions of opinion will have effect in determining the policies of the "imperialistic" powers in Washington...