Word: half
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Modern civilization rests on the production of goods. A year and a half of Bolshevik regime in Russia proves that once the incentive to production, or rather to the efficient organization of production, is eliminated, civilization crumbles away, if it does not tumble down with a crash. If Europe is to have a barrier to Bolshevism in the East, that barrier should be founded, politically, on the principle of satisfied nationalism, and, economically, on the principle of peasant proprietorship and diffused property. --New York Tribune...
...sign up today for the informal handicap track carnival to be held Thursday and Friday on Soldiers Field. Blue books are in the three Freshman dormitories, Leavitt & Perice's the Union, and the Locker Building. All thirteen events listed here will be held: 100, 220 and 440-yd dashes, half-mile, 2-mile, 120 hurdles, 220 low hurdles, high-jump, broad-jump, pole-vault, shot put, and hammer-throw...
...second day of football practice yesterday, several new candidates reported, among them E. L. Casey '19, regular half-back on the 1916 team...
...first run for the University came in the second half of the first inning, when the score stood 1-0 in favor of Bowdoin. After a hit by Emmons, Gross walked. Jones was safe on a fielder's choice which advanced Emmons, but forced Gross out at second. McLeod also was passed, filling the bases. Flynn then gave Perkins his base on balls, forcing Emmons home, and tying the score...
Bowdoin and the University each made two more runs, later in the game, making the score 3-3 in the last half of the ninth. C. S. Stillman '21 then reached second on a long hit to left centre-field, and was advanced to third on Evans' sacrifice bunt after Johnson had struck out. Emmons then hit out a stinging grounder between shortstop and third base which brought Stillman across the plate and gave the University the game by a one point margin...