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Word: periodical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tight pitching by Captain Woodruff of Amherst and Crawley of Springfield has reduced the batting average of the University squad during the period since the Bowdoin game. At that time, the Crimson stick-men were meeting the ball for an average of .267, but the light hitting that has featured the last two encounters has reduced this figure to .250, or one bingle for each four journeys to the plate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVERAGES FALL AS NINE FACES TIGHT TWIRLING | 5/7/1926 | See Source »

...grind of the period. He cared nothing for sports, clubs, clothes, or any of the finer things his alma mater had to offer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRE-WAR GRIND AS SEEN BY LIFE'S ARTIST | 5/7/1926 | See Source »

...competition, which is to be of six weeks' duration, will be run over into next fall. There will be three weeks of work this spring, ending before the start of the final examinations. The fall period of the competition affords the greatest opportunity for the gathering of advertising and subscriptions, which constitutes a major part of the competitors' work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE BUSINESS BOARD OPENS SPRING COMPETITION | 5/5/1926 | See Source »

...stands today or why the undergraduate bodies of the colleges should lose their enthusiasm simply because the great American people over-emphasize the annual competition. Toreadors have to eater to the Spanish public; football players don't in America. Here the public goes wild for a brief period, but it is all forgotten before the hockey season is under way. If the players have been able to keep their feet on the ground, no one has been the worse for the wear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: En Retard | 5/4/1926 | See Source »

...most interesting period began about 1200, when foreigners entered the country. These were the Toltecs from Mexico under the leadership of Guetzalcoatl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR TOZZER RE VIEWS PAST TWENTY-FIVE CENTURIES OF MAYA CIVILIZATION | 4/30/1926 | See Source »

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