Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Alonzo Stagg of Chicago reproduces in moleskin the tactics of the late Prussian army; when one line falls he sends up another. To people in the stands at Philadelphia it seemed that every substitute linesman was bigger than the last. But where one had fallen the next fell; Penn, with a swift, irreverent back named Paster Fields, smashed through...
...Dartmouth had beaten Yale no one would have said much, either way. Yale teams develop late and Dartmouth has, for nearly three years, been undefeated in the East. But when Yale, with a passing game, scored a touchdown in the third and another in the last period to beat Dartmouth, 14 to 7, people said a lot, both ways...
...long do you allow for a 200-mile automobile drive? Perhaps, if you are touring, you allow a day-a late start, a leisurely lunch somewhere along the road, an arrival about dusk. If, on the other hand, you happened to be one Harry Hartz of Los Angeles, you would allow 1 hour, 37 minutes, 21.25 seconds; this speed, a new world's record, he made last week at Salem...
Reading to operators is an old practice in the trade, for the late Samuel Gompers was a shop reader in the 1850's. Indeed he learned his philosophy of labor from the books he read aloud to his fellows...
...babbling as he waits for death that the grey bones of New England babies became fertilizer for the prairie soil; that the Puritans, nurtured on illusion, are wild asses run amuck when illusion has withered. Whoever he is, he once wrote (44) a novel and sent it to the late Walter Hines Page, who returnee it with the gentle words: "Either I am pretty crazy...