Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last quarter the Bruin Freshmen staged a final bid for a touchdown with a hard-hitting march down half the length of the field, but were held on downs at Harvard's 30-yard line...
Dope. Eastern games were played last week in wet weather which made the ball as hard to hold as a small and angry pig. Columbia held Cornell for downs on the one inch line. Kenneth Provincial beat New York University for Georgetown by scuttling 87 yards for a touchdown. The population of Blair, Ohio, sat in the stands at Columbus, wearing ribbons and buttons, to watch Native Mike Miles of Princeton help score on Ohio State...
...taking his Philadelphia audiences to account. Last week they annoyed him by coming late to a concert, clattering down the aisles, banging down seats. He stopped the music, wheeled on them: "Please, please don't make those noises. They are very distracting. We work hard all week to give you this music, but I cannot do my best without your aid. I'll give you my best or I won't give you anything. It is for you to choose...
...producers of Potemkin, turned out to be a brilliant, tiresome piece of Soviet propaganda. In an impressionistic manner not, as is commonly believed, originated by him, Director Eisenstein shows kaleidoscopic guns firing, statues falling, bottles breaking in superimposed shots the rapidity of which strains the eyes and makes them hard to watch. Hollywood directors, advised by intellectuals to learn their Eisenstein, would profit little from seeing, as they will not, this newsreel of the Russian revolution which lacks the most valuable feature that a newsreel can have-impartiality...
...Centigrade, 32° Fahrenheit) two marks on that bar are exactly one metre apart. That Paris metre is the modulus of the world's weights and measures.* If the standard bar were lost, and all its master duplicates in the capitals of civilized countries, scientists would be hard put to recalculate the metre distance, except...