Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faults uncovered in the Dartmouth game will form a large part of the basis for the work during the next few days. The end play, notably deficient as a defense against wide, sweeping end runs such as those used by Marsters and Lane against the Crimson last Saturday, will no doubt come in for considerable attention, as will also the problem of working out a plan of secondary defense which will prove adequate against a passing attack and open running plays...
...19th Hole. Frank Craven has written a golf comedy. He introduces a hero who is chiefly interested in stained glass; introduces this hero to a bag of golf clubs; proceeds to develop the domestic difficulties of this hero. Soon a menace appears in the form of a domineering colonel, to whom the dreamy hero refuses to pay a golf wager because he thinks the Colonel cheated. Actor Craven plays more craftily than he writes. The loudest laugh of the piece greets Mr. Craven's plaintive protest that he did not vilify the Colonel; simply said he was sunk...
...choose to run for the Yale Corporation in 1928." When he ran for Mayor of New York City against Justice William J. Gaynor in 1909, Mr. Bannard was described as "a wheel-horse."* Busy-body reporters trying to color his personality, inquired: "What is you favorite form of exercise?" The reply: "None. I tell you I'm the damnedest, most uninteresting man you ever met!" He is also, however, a onetime President of the New York Trust Co. When the Merchants' Trust was closed in 1905, he, as receiver, paid back every depositor with interest in four months...
...merely in our band music and in a failure to form the letter and play the music of the opposing college that we show a lack of courtesy, but I feel also in singing Yale songs when we are playing Holy Cross, for instance, we are using a "high hat" procedure which is a grave discourtesy...
...silver is refined by the cyanide process," he continued, "and is packed out about 78 miles by mule-back in the form of bricks. That trail is no little promenade even in the daytime; but we found ourselves on it one evening in the pitch dark and rain with five miles of the hardest stretch before us. It is no fund picking your way along with a roaring torrent about 1000 feet directly below...