Word: halt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought every bit of this amateur development to an abrupt halt. The thousands of amateurs over the country, had made themselves proficient radio operators, and when our Army and Navy in 1917 awoke to the situation, they found that hundreds of radio operators were wanted immediately. To train this number of men up from the condition of a raw recruit meant months and months of work, even though the training facilities were organized, which they were not. And so an appeal was made to the amateurs of the country through their national organization. To the everlasting glory of these splendid...
...President at least. In order to change the constitution there must be a smoker; in order to have a smoker there must be officers to arrange for it; in order to have officers there must be votes in the ballot boxes. At present the world is at a halt, and will continue so until the election ends...
...Crimson players found the Indiana eleven weak on both the defence and offense. Captain Kyle's slowness in get-new rushline to break through repeatedly in time to threaten seriously or to halt entirely the forward progress of his kicks. The Indiana fullback was hurried almost every time he attempted to boot the ball back into Crimson territory, the Hoosier line simply being strong enough to hold off the University forwards...
Toward the end of the afternoon Coach Fisher line up the black-jerseyed and Crimson men within drop-kicking distance of the second's goal. The scrubs then attempted to break through the University line and halt the coming kicks. K. S. Pfaffman '24 sent the ball neatly between the crossbars several times for the University...
Bunching hits was the team's forte in the win over New Hampshire State, 4-0. Russell allowed a mere two, safeties, and Emmons and Conlon were the fielding stars. The good work came to a sudden halt that very week, however, when a bad slump helped push Dartmouth on to a 9-2 victory. The first Holy Cross game was one of the tightest and most interesting of the season, and but for a temporary lapse in the fourth inning when Lincoln overthrew second and gave the Purple an opening for a successful squeeze play, the score might have...