Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second half of the Chicago game. Forced to rely mainly upon inexperienced Sophomores for the nucleus of his team, Coach Fritz Crisler has been following a policy of gambling in the encounters to date, and he has used the first-year men as much as possible in order to give them experience under fire. Now, with the hard games ahead, there is a stronk likelihood that the Orange and Black is ready...
...Messiah, a saviour of the city; he has promised, in his own words, "to save society." And to this Judge Seabury counters that he wants to save it "from the best mayor the city has ever had," and to save it for "that line old Columbian order . . . that certainly . . . believes that charity begins at home...
...hard they try. These, also, will feel the first tickling of the knife about their necks at the current "Hours." But the rest should find no particular difficulty with the tests, and it is to be hoped that each man does as well as he possibly can, in order that the College may make a fair estimate of him at this time, and not under-rate him simply because he has failed to do his best...
...burn fuel oil instead of gasoline, because the oil is ignited not by electric sparks but by high compression (around 500 Ib. per sq. in.) which raises the temperature of air in the cylinder to about 1,000° F., they are: 1) cheap to operate. 2) heavy in order to withstand high pressure, 3) expensive to construct...
Gabriel Richard, a priest of the teaching Sulpician Order, left his native France during the revolution, was sent to Illinois as a missionary, finally settled in Detroit in 1798. Arriving two years after the U. S. had annexed the Michigan territory, Father Richard was a leader of the village of less than 1,000 a year before its first merchant arrived. The priest brought Michigan its first piano, its first organ (whose pipes Indians stole, returned when they suspected the Great Spirit was angry), its first printing press on which he got out the territory's first newspaper...