Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of the season, also did no contact work. He has not scrimmaged since the Springfield game, and of course it will take him time to round into shape. He will not start Saturday, but should see considerable action. The same holds true for Adzigian. Harlow's main worry is to keep the squad in shape for the Yale game, and to avoid any further injuries in practice work...
...bodies and men belonging to either, assert that there is no conflict between the aims of the two societies. This point is not likely to be contested. The natural objection takes just the opposite form: that there is too much coincidence of aim. The Association is obscure because its main purpose is to assure fair play for its constituency. Since there is little occasion to struggle for this precious possession at Harvard, the Association has won neither fame nor notoriety. Anyway, its function is to prevent unfair discrimination against professors and to assure them of proper salaries, retirements, and appointments...
Congratulations on your enlightening and discerning article "The League," [TIME], Oct. 14, which in the main describes England's nimble maneuvering while slipping the noose around Italy's neck. For me it has crystallized into convictions many things which up to now have been only impressions - namely that: 1 ) Mr. Eden is an overly young and ambitious careerist. 2 ) That England, whilst casting pious eyes Heavenward, seeks to have the League pull her own imaginary chestnuts out of the fire. 3) That to duck a "possible" conflict of English-Italian interests in the Red Sea area 30 years...
...mystified correspondents last week stopped both in their tracks. At the headquarters of Old de Bono rumors were thicker than gnats. Some correspondents cabled that a camel corps of 20,000 men was being organized in the southwestern corner of Eritrea for a dash, not at any of the main Ethiopian positions but at Britain's "sphere of influence" in the general direction of Lake Tana...
...victory of his enemies was the result of an Austrian order incorrectly dated. The methodical Austrian commander, thus instructed to arrive at Montelegino the day after the battle, and the day after he was needed, followed his bungled orders to the letter. Napoleon had already taken the stronghold. The main Austrian army had retreated. At this point the small Austrian detachment, running 24 hours behind schedule, marched in quietly, as astonished as the French, who fled in disorder. That was a maneuver so unexpected that even Napoleon could not have conceived it. It suggested that in warfare a beautiful piece...