Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only available comparative scores are those of the games with Union College. Union defeated Yale 7 to 5, while Harvard was defeated by a 9 to 1 count. Although this would seem to give Yale some edge, the fact that the games were played early in the season and the Crimson players have been improving steadily ever since would discount any slight advantage. Yale's season has not been very successful...
...apparently becoming more pressing in proportion as the opportunities open to college men increase. Harvard has already recognized this need for guidance in the appointment in 1923 of a Faculty Committee, under Professor C. N. Greenough, with Mr. Delmar Leighton as secretary,--the work was discontinued in 1927. The fact that Harvard Seniors are not now vociferous in demanding guidance seems to this committee to indicate only their unconsciousness of the lack of a service to which they have not become accustomed...
What the deadly fumes were composed of was only guessed. Apparently it was a mixture. The coroner had the blood of several victims examined and found bromine and hydrocyanic acid (both deadly). Others hazarded that there were quantities of carbon monoxide in the gas. The fact that many, not apparently suffering at first, later succumbed, led to the supposition that nitrogen dioxide (brown gas like bromine) was one of the poisons...
Announcements of the General Motors-Fokker deal stressed the fact that Anthony H. G. Fokker would continue in charge of Fokker engineering and design. It was back in 1911 that Mynheer Anthony Fokker, then 21, decided that he wanted to fly. Having no plane, he built...
...addition to Optional Consumption, the committee (seemingly bent on creating phrases) also discussed Leisure Consumption-the fact that shorter hours of employment produce longer hours of leisure and that less work and more play make Jack a good spender. The busy radio and cinema industries were cited as examples of Optional Consumers engaged in Leisure Consumption...