Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that a Golden Age would someday manifest itself. The people were reluctant to accept Christ's simple doctrine, mainly because they did not want to. The following years, however, saw the Kingdom of God placed by the impatient people first in the Roman Empire, then in the Church, and even in the monasteries. But corruption and selfishness arose even within the cloistered walls...
...meeting last month was that few if any changes of importance will be made for next year. The length of the halves will probably be increased and the wording of several of the rules will be clarified. No desire was shown to change the forward pass in any way, even to substitute a distance penalty for loss of the ball when the pass hits the ground...
...nothing but a rooter. The rooter is as unknown there as the dodo. Nor does he ever hurry his breakfast to crowd around a horse-car and give a varsity team a send-off. Such send-offs would be as common as frogs in a millpond. Soldiers Field, even in the season, is as dead as a desert except within or near the Stadium; but University Park and the various private college fields are beehives of sport. Nor does the Oxford man do any less studying than the Harvard...
...University second hockey team defeated the first team yesterday afternoon in a practice game of two 15-minute periods in the Stadium by a score of 2 to 1. With Rumsey playing on the second team and Newhall not in the practice, the play was very even. There was very little team work by the members of either team, and the forwards of the first team were very inaccurate in their shooting. Pell made the only score of the first period from a scrimmage in front of the goal posts...
...nave of Westminster Abbey, said Professor Baker, was used during the reign of Elizabeth as a great social promenade, even while church services were being held in another part. Here was another place where Shakespeare's keen observation found room for free play. Close by the side of the church was the Convocation House, in the yard of which St. Paul's choirboys acted their plays. Another theatrical centre was St. John's Gate, where the properties for the court plays were kept, and where the playwrights gathered. Lastly, the Great Exchange, the business centre for all merchants, gave ample...