Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left the town deserted now, but its huge walls stand up 35 feet in the air, making a picturesque sight with their weathered, unbaked bricks. The remains of the bastion form a particularly good example of medieval fortification. We did a great deal of digging here, unearthing a lot of stucco sculpture, with the color still fresh, a magnificent bronze mirror, and some very good fragments of fresco-work...
...sure, however," he added, "we did have a lot of thrills of the kind you mean. The provinces of Honan, Chensi and Chansi are infested with rascally bandits, discharged soldiers, especially around Loyang. In the western provinces, the bandits are no less numerous, but here they are Mohammedans who are called Chanto, or turban-people, by the Chinese. Any one of these would stick you in the back for 20 cents, but they are a rough, genial sort, and are a problem to the Chinese in Kansu. Around the Yellow River and Huang Ho, Field Marshal Wu Bel Fu rules...
...course there is a lot of soldiering to do, but the work puts a man in shape for football and the other fall sports. As Robert T. Fisher, the Head Football Coach at Harvard said, 'Many young men wonder what to do during the summer months in order to prepare themselves for football in the fall. In my opinion nothing could be more beneficial than a month spent at a Citizens' Military Training Camp at Camp Devens. It has been my observation that good military men always make good players. It is easy to understand why training and discipline...
...goes the delighted Tony to Cambridge, where he gets rather a lot out of university life?practically everything, one gathers, except an education. He manages to read as little Law as is consistent with his remaining there at all, but he "goes out for" rowing, a bit of hockey, and all the social amenities. He becomes a member of several clubs, and part-editor of a collegiate journal...
...Post took the other view. Mr. Kelley said, "To be sure it was a hard hit ball, but it bounded squarely into the center fielder's hands and reasonably clean fielding would have stopped it. I don't claim to be an authority, but I've seen a lot of baseball, and I certainly would call it an error." Mr. Kelley was formerly secretary of the Boston Braves and is a member of the Baseball Writers Association...