Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before they slap down at least $3.85 on the fine they must have some indication that they will get their money's worth in return. That same amount of money could easily take the average spectator to a better football game so why does he persist in getting in a big traffic jam on Larz Anderson bridge...
...hopeful varsity soccer team with a "we can beat them if we get a decent break" attitude takes the field this afternoon against a Yale eleven which forms the records, has an overwhelming advantage...
There's nothing so hot about these guys. They're a dime a dozen on every Harvard squad in every sport, and they don't get either headline or athletic scholarships. They may be suckers, but they're in a swell sport to do one badly needed good turn. They can give a loud and lusty bird to John Tunis. Larry Kelly, and their fellow hatchet men of the "College athletics stink" tribe...
...President wanted to run for a third term, so he decided that he would have to get the people on his side. He knew that people loved to eat better than anything, and that they spent most of the year sitting around, unemployed, licking their chops while waiting for Thanksgiving and the Salvation Army Banquet. So, being, as everyone knows, a frightful opportunist, he decided to make the people like him by giving them Thanksgiving a week early so that they wouldn't have to wait so long. And he did, and they won't, and the Salvation Army objected...
...other side of the fence we find that all the New England states are in the insurgent camp. The New Englanders have not been disturbed by the controversy at Harvard, and students who live in these states, approximately one third of the total body, will get their home cooked turkey. All other students must be satisfied with House or Union gobblers...