Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tempered with sanity. When the Dartmouth published its editorial on mass meetings the same spirit was expressed. The less hysteria attached to football, the better. So, as in many other varieties of human interest, the truth of the matter seems to be that clarity begins at home. If the larger colleges of the East can maintain sobriety and sense in their athletic contests, if they can realize that football in its place is excellent, but that the place is limited, then there need be no disturbance about "over emphasis", in victory or in defeat...
...members of legislative committees called at his home before the day's session to see which bills were to be passed. To his legislators he gave orders rather than suggestions, but when he wrote to his Mayors he was careful to phrase his wishes in terms of a larger and collective power, the will of the Klan...
...northern hemisphere was intensely crumpled by the sliding-together of the North Polar and the Equatorial dome. The result was the Appalachian-Hercynian system of mountains...Meantime, the continent was being domed as a whole. In this way sliding-slopes, directed toward the primitive Pacific Ocean, which was then larger than now, were generated...At last, about the middle of the Mesozoic Era, the unique continent finally succumbed to the pull toward the Pacific. It broke into huge fragments, the Americas, Eurasia-Africa. Australasia, and Antarctica. The last, Antarctica, seems not to have moved much horizontally. The others slowly slid...
...best one act play ever written--A veritable classic," exclaimed Ethel Barrymore. "I have acted in 'The Twelve Pound Look' on various occasions for nearly twenty years, and I always come back to it. When I cannot be in an exceptionally fine larger play, I invariably resort to this...
...real team. And this optimism is seemingly borne out by last Saturday's 32 to 0 win over Lehigh. In this encounter, the opposition was weaker than had been expected, but the Bears ramriot, tried every sort of offensive play with conspicuous success and might have rolled up a larger score had they cared to do so. Randall, flashy halfback, took the niche in the hearts of Brown rooters that was left vacant by the departed Jackson Keefer. His wonderful open field running accounted for a major part of his team's total yardage, and his all-around performance gave...