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Word: handfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office in the same position by violating an ancient edict forbidding the placarding of telegraph posts. With the local elections due shortly, practically all the candidates for jobs have had their pictures pasted on the posts. Where the rivalry between law and order and politicians on the one hand and the Harvard Socialists and their high-priced lawyers on the other will end, lies on the lap of the Gods and the good humour of the Harvard Square policeman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Distribution Problem Faces Socialists With the Hoosegow in Sight--Anti-Army Rally Planned for Day of Game is Rumor | 10/3/1929 | See Source »

...arrange a full schedule for a light weight eleven if it decided to have one. Time would have to be taken to bring the new idea to the attention of other colleges and more time would have to go by while they were considering it. If, on the other hand, there existed today some athletic conference made up of New England colleges, the whole matter could be discussed thoroughly and either approved or rejected within a much shorter comparative time. That such a conference does not exist today seems ridiculous, but it does not, and as a result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEUDALISM IN SPORTS | 10/2/1929 | See Source »

Former dicta have forbidden that this surplus be turned to the completion of the new Athletic Building, whose scrawny frame may be destined to strike terror into the hearts of nearby residents for many months to come. But on the other hand, rumour saith that the immovable hath been moved if only slightly, and that the Corporation may reconsider its previous decisions, and leave the path open to the utilization of the surplus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

...fairly obvious to any one who stops to consider the function which pro tennis performs and compare it with the function of say boxing or baseball. The last two named serve only one purpose as professional sports and that is to amuse the spectator. Pro tennis on the other hand like pro golf has for its primary purpose the instruction of those who desire to learn the game so that they can play it themselves. Just why the stigma commonly associated with professionalism should attach to such an unquestionably worthy end is a mystery, but fortunately one which seems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

With a fund of good material on hand, the Harvard mentor plans two scrimmages, possibly three, this week in an attempt to cut his present squad of 48 down to more wieldy proportions. This afternoon will find the first string players pitted against Coach Knox's seconds and the two squads will meet again on Wednesday afternoon. There is a possibility of a third scrimmage on Thursday. So far the Crimson squad has engaged in six practice tussles with the scrubs and run through a wide variety of plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORWEEN LAUNCHES DRIVE FOR OPENER | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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