Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest traditions of this rivalry is the annual struggle for the "little brown jug." When old Michigan teams traveled to play Minnesota, they carried their water in a number of brown jugs, painted with the Michigan colors. One year, however, it was found that one of the jugs was missing. Every place was searched, but the container could not be found anywhere in connection with the Michigan team. The incident was more or less forgotten, until the next year, when, at the game at Ann Arbor, the Minnesota supporters appeared on the field with the brown jug, repainted with Minnesota...
...names of the institutions represented by five or more members in the Class of 1933, with the number of their alumni this year and last respectively follow...
...sort who made "don't write, telegraph" famous have brought forward their contribution to the overemphasis problem in the form of ten suggested pep messages to be delivered to the boys a few minutes before the game. At present writing no statistics are available as to the relative number of telegrams delivered to winning and to losing teams during the past season, but if there is a possibility of sales arguments in such figures one can be sure that Western Union actuaries will soon supply them...
Books, stationery, and periodicals are sold by 11 stores, a number indicative of the amount of reading and writing done by Harvard men. There are three florists, six druggists, four jewelry stores, and three sporting goods concerns...
...familiar spa, with its wares of fruit and candy, exists to the number of 10. Of hotels, opticians, telegraph offices, undertakers, and plumbers there are two each. There are five banks, a like number of garages and painters, a theatre, an architect, and 10 printers and engravers...