Word: getting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mass of evidence the one or two vital points upon which the case will turn is as important in trials as strategy in a battle. Generally the most effective method of examining witnesses is to assume that the witness is trying to tell the truth, and find out or get him to admit, the points on which he is mistaken...
...resulted in a tie, 4 to 4. The first team was outplayed by the second, and only by desperate work in the last few minutes of play was it able to tie the score. The forwards played loosely and after almost every advance allowed the second team defense to get possession of the puck. Callaway, as usual, was the only first team forward who was at all quick in following back. In this respect the second team outclassed the first and prevented several goals by their fast work. Of the first team defense Foster was fairly effective, but Newhall played...
...left the garden of Eden. There are perhaps two thousand of them on their way to their different sports. At Oxford no man sits and sucks his thumbs. No man trusts to his eyes and ears and lungs for exercise. Every man plays something. If he can't get a chance to play once game he plays another. He has been brought up in schools where play is a part of the education. Every boy at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Westminster is compelled to play something. If he is as small as young Nehemiah and has not push enough...
...Blaikie stroked the University crew which defeated Yale in 1866, and afterward continued to show ardent enthusiasm for rowing and other athletics by writing on these subjects. In 1879 he published "How to Get Strong and How to Stay So," of which more copies have been sold than of any other book written on athletics...
...College from the Boston Latin School, where he captained the eleven and rowed on the crew, he has taken a very prominent part in football. Following his season as halfback on the Freshman team in the fall of 1901, he was taken to the University squad, but did not get into the game as a member of the University team until the following year when he played substitute right half-back in the Yale game. For the past two years he has played regularly in that position...