Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...letters "H.A.A.", some will object, by long association have come to be looked on as peculiar to track. We beg, then, to recall the days when the "H" was awarded to the first four-oared crew only in case of victory on the Thames, and the "H.U.B.C." in the event of defeat; and suggest that separate insignia for substitutes be established in each sport--perhaps "H.F." in football, "H.B." in baseball, "H.U.B.C." as formerly in crew, and "H.H.T." in hockey, for since hockey has ascended to a seat among the majors it should be included. The form of insignia...
...spectrum of the stars. The Observatory has been eminently successful in this work and a classification was drawn up which was accepted last summer by the International Solar Union at Bonne to be the authentic system. In this work, a large number of new stars, variables and other peculiar objects have been discovered. A catalogue classification of 200,000 stars is now being prepared at the Observatory by Miss Cannon at the rate of 5,000 a month. This will fill eight volumes of the annals...
...Engineering Department, drew up a charter on the commission form of city government, modeled after the newer charters of the western cities. This document was submitted to the voters on a referendum and it was defeated, the chief objection being that it did not take sufficiently into consideration the peculiar needs of Cambridge. Professor Johnson has revised this charter and it will probably be again submitted to the Legislature and to the voters at the next elections...
...score is that the old football which to those of us who are not fresh from college knew and admired, is beyond resuscitation. A decade or two decades ago the field goal was an unusual method of scoring. Such a score was a result of the peculiar skill of a single player, and in the old days the skill of a single player was of much less importance than it is now. The teams worked without individual stars assuming any monopoly of usefulness or attention. Eleven men, working as a unit, crashed down the field in their march...
...Peculiar Position of Socialist Party