Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Material, the uncomplimentary word with which at the start of the season college football coaches describe undergraduates who play the game, was one main subject of discussion last week. At Princeton. 30 members of the squad were ill from food poisoning. At the University of Missouri. Coach Frank Carideo, one-time Notre Dame quarterback, ordered his players to attend classes in corduroy trousers, wear no ties or vests. Reason: "When a player begins to worry about his clothes, he becomes less of a football player and more of a loafer. I'd like to have my men dress...
...page story of Omar's life, loves, adventures. Though Omar Khayyam does not read like an eyewitness report. Author Lamb has turned his travels and studies to such good account that his story is pleasantly plausible. Readers may rely on more than half of what he says. "The main events . . . the major incidents . . . and perhaps half of the actual dialogue . . . are retrieved from contemporary writings, or traditions, and are not invented...
...this information is catalogued, but the main computations are derived from the reports of obviously competent and trained observers,--surveyors, trained seamen, coastguardsmen, and the like. Their letters, coming from scattered positions along the coast, notable from Isle au Haute, Me.; Boston Harbor, Nantucket, Nantasket, and Jonesboro, Me.; and towns along the North Shore of Massachusetts supply accurate magnetic compass directions and angles of elevations of the starting and vanishing points of the flight, and a comparison of the size of the body with that of the sun at the time...
Although the subjects listed are concerned primarily with modern governmental problems. It is emphasized that it is not the main purpose of the lectures to present a survey of contemporary movement. It is the fundamental theory of the series that projects of research carried on by younger members of the government department be outlined, informally, to other members of the University...
...when the Chicago fire threatened the house and which was subjected to such intense heat that the 10 by 17 parchment shrunk to about 5 by 7 without making the inscription illegible. Some of the menus for class banquets show 13 kinds of game on the menu beside the main course of roast turkey...