Word: fives
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some of the difficulties in the way of developing the machine may be imagined by the conditions of the contest, which require that the airplane shall take the air vertically, have a range of speed up to 134 miles an hour, and land vertically within a radius of five metres...
...principle of free speech has had almost universal acceptance since a hundren and twenty-five years ago. In countries and localities where it has been applied, "free trade in ideas" has usually resulted in the separation of the good from the bad, and "the power of though to get itself accepted in the competition of the market" has been proved. Governments have found that when attempt is made to clamp down the lid on things they dislike the result has been that the lid has not only been forced open but entirely blown...
...Twenty-five men at Yale received their "Y" for playing in either the University or Princeton football game. These men were as follows: Acosta, Aldrich, Allen, Braden, Callahan, Campbell, Dickens, Galt, Galvin, Hamill, Hubbard, Kempton, LaRoche, Lay, Munger, Neville, Reinhardt, Robinson, Sidenberg, Vorys, Walker, Walters, Webb, Welles, Zenner...
...William T. Sedgwick, Curator of the Lowell Institute, has announced five more courses of lectures for the season of 1920. These will begin after the Christmas holidays and will supplement the lectures which have been delivered thus far by Dr. T. M. Legge and Professor Levy-Bruhl. Professors C. H. Haskins LL. D., '08, R. H. Lord '06, and A. C. Coolidge '87, of the History Department of the University, will be the three lecturers who will discuss the problem of peace. Professor E. B. Hill of the Music Department will speak on "The Growth of Modern French Music...
...rules for catch-as-catch-can wrestling, will govern the bouts, so that a fall will terminate each bout. The time has been limited to five minutes for the preliminary bouts and ten minutes for the finals, unless terminated sooner by a fall. There will be seven classes in which the men will wrestle, from 115 pounds to the heavy-weight of over 180 pounds. Entrants will weight in on the day of their match and must be within the six-pound allowance for over weight...