Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...European libraries have been gradually increasing in size for centuries, and for a long time the number of books proved rather cumbersome for the antiquated methods of cataloguing," said Dr. Roland-Marcel to a CRIMSON reporter after his lecture in Emerson Hall last night "Many of the books in a library were practically unknown and inaccessible. An entire reorganization of the library system was necessary to make it efficient. This was begun in the Bibliotheque Nationale in 1882, when the compilation of an alphabetical slip catalogue of the 3,000,000 and more volumes in the library was started...
This is the highest average recorded by a Crimson team at this stage of the season in a number of years. Last spring the Harvard hitsmiths had compiled a .309 average after the southern trip, while two years ago a paltry 250 told the tale of the early effectiveness of the University batters...
...most diverting features of a presidential campaign is the number and enthusiasm of the various minor parties that enter candidates in the race. There is a Farmer-Labor party, a Prohibition party even in these dry times, and until 1924 the Socialists also had a man in the field. Then they were sacrificed to LaFollette's Progressives and are only just being revived. In fact during the last week, while Governor Smith has been attracting crowds at the churches he attended on his Southern trip, that party has been holding a convention in New York to choose candidates...
...fundamentals of the game: heading, trapping, passing, and goal kicking, will be emphasized in the first weeks of work and arrangements are now being made for a number of practice games for the latter part of the season...
...rules governing admission will be so administered as to limit admission to a carefully selected group of men who are fully qualified to comply with the standards of the school. Two reasons are advanced by the Law Faculty for the important change in educational policy, first, the increase in number of law students, and second, the ineffectiveness of the present admission requirements which have not proved wholly effective in excluding men not suited to the type of work done in the better schools...