Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offense to evolve some other method of keeping the defense in doubt as to the real intent of the attack, and the huddle was a very natural answer to this problem. From the huddle a team can come out into any one of a multitude of formations the exact nature of which is concealed from the defense until almost the instant when the ball is put in play. This result could not be achieved if the team made all its moves from a standard formation, because the defense could move with, and as fast as the offense...
...care thinking of the homeland. Those who are forced to endure it weather the storm amiably enough, probably never realizing their utter contemptibility. Likewise is the case with that popular being--the moron. "A moron in Europe is just a moron; to America he is something more." To be exact he is a movement, a symbol, a danger, a type he is anything but an individual. This tendency of Americans to make shibboleths of casual remarks of foreigners and men without countries is responsible, thinks Mr. Boyd, for the inferiority complex which we are now suffering. Nor will ruminating...
Phillips Brooks House officials were emphatic in declaring that the lecture has been merely postponed, not cancelled. It is expected that the Chicago lawyer will address Harvard men sometime next March or April; the exact date, however, is not yet known...
...process of sending pictures by way of electric wires, and the Bell System had just recently installed the needed apparatus in San Francisco and other major cities. If Doremus & Co.'s revised advertisements were set up and a clean proof photographed, the Bell Co. would deliver exact reproductions where wanted. This was done, and the advertisement appeared according to original schedule. Doremus & Co.'s president, Economist Clarence Walker Barren, was pleased, advertised on his own account the arch-service of his office. C. W. Barron is the head of his profession-financial journalism- the biggest...
...scientists there are testing the strength of the atom injecting foreign particles into the atom and bending the atom out of shape. Since this invisible unit of matter is the basic substance of which everything is composed, the physicists are really engaged in a study of fundamentals. When the exact nature of the atom is finally ascertained, the results will be of the utmost importance in every field of science...