Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high to Bjorkman who broke loose and ran back ten yards. Kelley gained nothing on a right end run. Hubbard blocked Haws on the left. An offside penalty put Dartmouth back five yards. Haws smashed through the line for three yards. Kelley kicked to Lee, who signalled for a fair catch on the 20-yard line. Time out while Dartmouth forms a hollow square to enable a Dartmouth man to change his pants. Harvard Band plays to cover up the embarrassing silence...
Dartmouth lost five yards on a penalty. Hall broke through tackle for two yards. On the next play. Hubbard tackled Dooley on the goal line. Hall kicked to Spalding, who signalled for a fair catch on his 40-yard line. Jenkins gained a yard and Hammond on the third play stumbled into Leavitt's arms on the line of play. Hammond kicked to Dooley, who broke away from Hill and took it back 20' yards to the Green 35-yard line. Leavitt ran the ball off side. Hall gained a yard through the line and Haws advanced it four yards...
...this would bid fair to become dry moralizing were it not, as has been said, for the author's graceful sly humor and intense humanity. He is smiling all the time--a very kindly smile. And yet that same smile that prevents him from sermonizing prevents him equally well from annihilating. He is cool and he is pleasant. Too cool and too pleasant to push his arguments to their farthest limits. His smile of understanding never changes into the frown of annoyance, with the result that the reader is at times disappointed in not seeing the adversary completely disposed...
Good sets and fine lighting effects were the outstanding features of "The Dancing Girl" at the Shubert Monday night. The widely-advertised living curtain, which bids fair to become a fixture of all of this season's revues, much as the radium gowns of last winter's musical comedies, was a horrible disappointment. It presented what might have been five bathing beauties in gold one-pieces. Or the five most beautiful girls who have appeared in the Police Gazette this summer. Possibly they were certain muses: the Winter Garden is an authority on muses. Anyway, the curtain lasted only...
...regulative machinery" over the entire production and interstate distribution of coal to be used only when the President judges that "an emergency exists". No doubt the Commission is right in implying that such profiteering exists only when there is or is expected to be a shortage. But even in fair years the industry has its ups and downs; and since these "dummy" wholesalers have their teeth continually whetted for every vicissitude, the Commission would have done well to suggest something at least a few degrees more effective...