Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice the squad has been arbitrarily divided into two groups. Squad A took the rink first today and spent the allotted time in practising a one man defense against a two-man attack. Then Coach Stubbs had the men line up, race, and reverse at the whistle. Squad B later repeated the same methods...
...evidenced in the records of the College office. At that time several changes were introduced. The custom of honoring specially eight men each year from the Junior Class was inaugurated. Twenty-two seniors were elected at the same time and provision was made for the electors to select later in the year five more students from the Senior Class whose mathematical records would not qualify them for consideration but whose eligibility was incontestable. As years went on this number increased from five to ten and even to 15. This power granted the electing body to search beneath the College grades...
...Author. At a conference of press correspondents in Albany the late Robert Fuller was so conspicuous for his intelligent questions that Charles Evans Hughes marked him, later appointed him his gubernatorial secretary and right hand man. A graduate of Harvard (1888), 18 years a newspaperman-reporter, editor, political pundit-he spent the last 20 years of his life in public service, representing Mr. Hughes's "ideal of the faithful, intelligent public servant, the sort that makes democracy worth while...
...until she referred casually to the custom of her country that would require Odysseus' death as soon as she was with child by him. Before he could complete, however, his mission as chosen father, he escaped to the next island and succumbed to the charms of Circe (he later described her to Penelope as "a witch, rather distressing to look at"). Calypso, "a large female, beautifully proportioned." endured him longest-seven years-and not until their several children all showed a lurking lack of virility did she decide that it was time their lazy father should return...
...Lilienthal in Germany, Percy Pilcher in England, Samuel Pierpont Langley, the Wrights and Octave Chanute in the U. S. were perfecting airplane wings and gliding with them, when the Langley motored plane tried to fly in 1903 and the Wright motor plane actually did fly a couple of months later. Alberto Santos-Dumont did not fly a plane until...