Word: makeshift
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Though the Harvard attack was totally unable to form in the Boston half of he field, good defensive play, especially by Captain Dorman and Bob Holcombe, kept the opposition from scoring until late in the game, when Coach Carr had a makeshift lineup on the field...
Operating under a somewhat makeshift executive arrangement, Phillips Brooks House plans nonetheless to expand its undergraduate activities this year in at least three directions: First we hope to increase the number of social service volunteers from about a hundred to one hundred and fifty; second we hope to increase the functions and range of the Speakers Committee, and third; we plan to encourage close contacts between foreign students and undergraduates. To carry out these programs the enlistment of considerable Freshman assistance is necessary...
...With a makeshift lineup, the inspired Feslermen started off by running up eight points on the startled Elis before a single blue shot touched the hoop. Then the Blue team swung into action, and with long Tommie Wilson controlling the tap, Bud, Miles and his cohorts rang up twelve quick markers. Charley Kollinites tied it up with a pair of field goals as the half ended...
...Conant down. Only an indignant plea by his mother got him admitted as a student in 1906. He had flunked his entrance examination in spelling. No infant prodigy, he did not learn to read until he was seven. But soon after that he was brewing malodorous compounds in a makeshift laboratory labeled: "Only two persons allowable in shop at a time." He insisted on going to Roxbury, against his parents' vote for more fashionable Milton, because it had a friendly science master named Newton Henry Black. Master Black is now assistant professor of physics at Harvard and its president...
...steamship captain. At 16 Try. Narvesen migrated to the U. S., bustled through Minneapolis' Augsburg College, joined up with the Y. M. C. A. He learned that education can do without money at a War prison camp near Salt Lake City, which he turned into a makeshift "college" with smart internes as instructors. In Lansing he be longs to the Rotary Club, works hard for inter-class brotherhood, begins every day at 6:30 a. m. by hiking 40 minutes with his husky Norwegian wife...