Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that's it. It is not worth the paper it is written on, and is one of the most dangerous documents that could be gotten up for the national defense...
...Football was played at Harvard long before there were any contests between he colleges. Intercollegiate games were gotten up merely as an added enjoyment, not to make the game itself enjoyable; and intercollegiate games were also usually enjoyed in the same spirit as were the scrub games, as I can testify from having played in a Harvard McGill game...
...perfectly well aware of the technical difficulties in playing the modern game without being organized as a team, so highly developed have become the tactics and science of the game. Nevertheless, these difficulties could be gotten over if college students really enjoyed and really wanted to play the game. Where are the young graduates who so enjoyed the game and why don't they organize teams and play it as they used to play it shortly after leaving college? Such lack of playing by those not on college teams does not speak for enjoyment of the game. Still...
...were getting the worst of it at the time, and it seems that some pacifist organization asked President Eliot to appeal to the American President to try and stop the war. This President Eliot refused to do, and I always liked his answer. 'The English people have often gotten themselves into scrapes and they usually manage to crawl out of them...
...When there is a 15-cent spread on the price of a commodity in one day, there is undoubtedly gambling going on. It has gotten so that a great many people believe that the Board of Trade is a nuisance from the way it has been running wild. The gambling should be eliminated...