Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practice, which started after the Penn football game, two weeks earlier than is usual, has so far consisted in drills on fundamentals, with passing, dribbling, and conditioning exercises as the main drills. The scrimmage next week will mark the beginning of team play...
When Senator William E. Borah made his widely quoted speech of last week, declaring that the enforcement of prohibition should be the main issue of the 1928 campaign, he little realized how far-reaching would be some of the effects of his statement. The idea of non-enforcement of the constitution affects different people in different degrees. Some write their congressman, some tell the family what Bernard McFadden said about it this morning, and some are merely reminded to get a new corkscrew next time they are down in the market district. But to the members of the Women...
...British contention is that the dam, if built, would jeopardize the whole water supply of the Sudan and Egypt, the life blood of those regions; for the Blue Nile, whose confluence with the White Nile at Khartum forms the Nile, is the most important tributary of the main river...
From him, their new president, the British librarians at Edinburgh last week heard a heartening definition of library work which might have been meant for Chicago ears: "One of the main features on which the success of the library service depends is freedom?freedom of the locality to develop its resources without dictation; freedom of the library in its construction and accessibility; and freedom of the individual to seek for what he desires...
...Story: At the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Manhattan, Photios Missailidis and Athanas Harrison conduct the men's main washroom. Each day they place large clusters of small-sized buttonhole flowers (daisies, bachelor-buttons, tube roses, carnations and the like) in vases in their washroom?free buttonhole flowers to any washer-at-the-Ritz...