Word: ill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class football squad, coached by former University players, thoroughly outfitted, and playing on fields of its own. Football can now be taken up at almost any time during the fall; an intensive grass drill as preliminary to each practice insures the newcomer against strain and the injuries of ill condition...
Therefore, claimed Doctor Garabedian, when the mother-in-law fell ill two years ago, Ras Taffari wanted him to treat her, after Ras Taffari's own fashion. But "Doctor Garabedian, man of scruples, would not. Consequently, Ras Taffari called in a rival of Doctor Garabedian's, a sinister Greek. Soon the mother-in-law died...
...uncertainly from one to another of an elective body of student officials; the custom of changing all class and college officers annually but widens, of course, the breach for error. But the mere fact that blame lies in the system rather than on specific heads does not mitigate the ill-effects of the resulting inefficiency...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola termed the freshman squad as "pretty good" and said that they seemed to be "following in the footsteps of Freshman squads of rent years." The Freshman harriers have dropped but one meet in the past free seasons, and that to Dartmouth last ill. Mikkola explained that the purpose Friday's meet was to get a line on the experienced members of the squad, as well as to get more Freshmen interested across country. Every man in the freshman class is eligible to participate this opening run, regardless of ability. The coach pointed out that J. L. Reid...
...gone to bed, the student crept out the door, made his way to the Pomme de Pin. There he swilled many a mugful. With him were 3 young picklock and a less specialized, more versatile scoundrel. After that day's dawn, Villon's spare hours were habitually ill-spent. At the age of 24 he killed a man in a mysterious brawl. He devised elaborate tricks for the theft of rich provender and wines (after his death the noun Villonerie was common parlance for clever ruses). The raucous trulls at Fat Margot's knew him well...