Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard football that counts the game as more than the winning of it, and a carrying the ball always against the other team as the best way to play the game. It is a worthy tradition, whose worth needs no testimony, and the assurance of its extension for at least another year is encouraging...
...subject, and because it deals with the spirit of man in all its vigorous vagaries, progressive and regressive, and hence is the subject par excellence for the pre-occupation of man, has the necessary explosives for lighting the intellectual fuse in the minds of at least some undergraduates. No young man should go through college unburned. It does not make a great deal of difference what subject infects him first; he should be infected. He may then proceed on his own fuel. Once the taste of blood, always a hunter. Let a man once smack his lips on abnormal psychology...
...Europe, is undoubtedly justified in a case where ten years of representative government produced little but turmoil, riots and even assassinations on the floor of the legislative chamber. Those familiar with the past and present maps of Europe will remember that the Jugo-Slavian government has in addition at least one other "submerged nationality" to deal with, the Montenegrins, whose support of the Allied cause was rewarded by the loss of their independence at the Peace Conference...
...chambers are now being fitted up, one as a laboratory and workshop and the other as living quarters for the men who will work in the tank, who will have to remain in it at least a week on end. It takes some 24 hours to adjust them to the change in pressure, and once in the tank, there is tremendous pressure on the door to keep them there. Only a half pound difference in pressure from that of the normal atmophere places a force of 1500 hundred pounds on the door...
Mohammed and King Canute were no less successful in their contests with the forces of nature than are most attempts of mere mortals to feel the thrill of seating in the seats of the mighty. And yet, in metaphor at least, that is what the applicants are privileged to do in this trial of their judgment. For, to choose but one from a notable array of the great, has not the one and only Babe Ruth rendered his verdict in just such a test? The name of an equally famous athlete who is rumored to have chosen wrongly...