Word: offshoot
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...development even more sinister than the external aspects of commercialism in intercollegiate sport, and at the same time an apparent offshoot of them, is the gradual change in the psychological attitude of the undergraduate toward those mores that once were considered the essentials of good sportsmanship. If this phenomenon were evidenced only at Princeton in such recent unpleasant flurries of booing as at the Yale hockey game and the Penn basketball game, we might possibly have regarded it as a momentary and localized lapse from gentlemanly conduct which would not soon recur. But with disturbing remembrance of similar demonstrations...
...established the first permanent settlement and gave the little archipelago its alternate name of Somers Islands. The town of St. George, first capital of Bermuda, is named not for Britain's patron saint but for Sir George Somers. In 1612 the islands were granted by charter to an offshoot of the Virginia Company. William Shakespeare had heard enough about them to make "The Still-vexed Bermoothes'' the scene of The Tempest. Bermuda today has a population of 30,884 of whom about half are white, half Negro. A sizable section of the white population is not Anglo...
...TIME, Dec. 1, the note on Funeral Costs is of interest. TIME's charges are essentially sound. I doubt, though, if the funeral director is altogether to blame. He is the offshoot of lavish demands, created by sentiment...
...done. He worked under Lord Northcliffe on the Daily Mail at its inception. He edited and illustrated a colored Women's Supplement of the London Times. He has been Librarian of the Royal Academy. In 1915 he helped raise a regiment of painters, the United Arts Force, offshoot of the Artists' Rifles of Kitchener's Army...
...case of Uncas was this: in 1635 Connecticut settlers first began to buy land from Uncas,* friendly Pequod who later organized the Mohegans (an offshoot of the Mohicans), became the No. i sachem of Connecticut. In 1659 he sold the English for ?70 nine sq. mi. for the settlement of Norwich. He fought with them against other Indian tribes, horrified pious colonists with ruthless decapitation of his enemies. In 1682 Norwich deeded back to Uncas and "his heirs forever" some 200 acres of land on the edge of town in lieu of ?3 still owing on the original purchase...