Word: game
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard football coaches was discussing the possibilities of "Red" Barrett's team on the way to the Michigan game...
Fortnight ago, ushers at the Harvard-Dartmouth football game impounded a dozen gate-crashing moppets in a wire cage beneath the Soldiers Field stadium. Tiresome children! Lock them...
...Louis Zoo, had been condemned to death by the U. S. Government. Reason: The Government forbids the importation of mongooses. Although they are valuable in India and Africa as snake destroyers, in the comparatively snakeless U. S. they would, if allowed to multiply, quickly menace poultry and game...
...their interrelation becomes more evident, the general problems of science more clearly insoluble. In astronomy, physics, biology, lengthy strides have been made in the last 20 years toward the realization that man knows less and less about more and more. Scientists to whom science is more than an enthralling game are consequently ''turning back." the Pragmatists to Philosophy, the mystics to Religion...
...knew other whites. In a dive, he sold them opium at $1 a paper. Another place was a bowling-alley. When one bowler saw him bunching the pins for the next man, Taylor had to leave through a window. Life was not all work. The white boys had a game "Stray Goose." One boy ran, until caught and pummeled. Taylor helped. When he was 16 he put on a cowboy's costume and strutted to a dance. The girls were nicer than Big Maude's. He began to dream and want money. He told his mother what...