Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...field events on our track team. Coach Powers has been at Soldiers Field every afternoon during the past month and so far has been greeted by very few candidates for the field events. I do not believe that most undergraduates realize what fun and enjoyment can be gotten out of practice for these events. They do not realize it because they have not tried. Men do not need to be physical giants to find this enjoyment. Coach Powers will be glad to see a large number of undergraduates, particularly Freshmen and Sophomores, although Juniors and Seniors are welcome...
...opponent by making a drive at either wing, only to pass the ball laterally over the heads of the opposing men who have been drawn in in an attempt to stop the play. The pass goes toward the sideline to either of Yale's two backfield men who have gotten outside of the opponent's extreme defensive man. Plunges expected to smash the opponent's defence, fast end runs, and varied uses of the forward pass are the other important factors in her offensive machine...
...weak in the line. They could not gain consistently by either massed or open plays, and only three times held the ball on the Crimson side of the 50-yard line, never penetrating nearer than 25 yards. In the second quarter, time was called when Bates had just gotten into position for an attempt at a field goal. Near the end of the last period an attempt was actually made after a forward pass had placed the ball on the 28-yard line, but the kick went very wide...
...newspapers of all kinds and of many tongues. The news is transmitted over trunk telegraph lines from which many hundreds of smaller wires radiate. Infinite wire trouble and the loss of many thousands of dollars is caused by disasters, such as the recent Ohio floods. But news must be gotten at any cost...
...life is essentially in motion and evil helps to draw it forward. But too often we exaggerate its importance by regarding it as static. The true movement of life is towards the enlargement of itself; selfishness may be regarded as the basic cause of evil, and society having thus gotten out of gear, we are obliged to use coercion to maintain order. Evil proves the dignity of life in that it is the right of man to suffer, but it is the duty of man to turn evil to good. As the opposite of joy for work well done...