Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of a national emergency, perhaps the greatest since the period when an Illinois lawyer named Abraham Lincoln, brooding over a political speech, decided to let the phrase, "a house divided against itself cannot stand," remain in the text. Off in the unknown future lay a sequence of collisions and calamities, no one of which would have been believed for a minute by the industrious philosophers of 1929. While the echoes of the crash were still rolling, the ardent Charles Mitchell, supersalesman of the boom years, said calmly, "I am still of the opinion that the reaction has badly overrun...
...strong Williams team, a narrow field, a ball lighter than the one to which they are accustomed, and a high wind all added together to bring defeat in an overtime period to the Crimson soccer team Saturday afternoon, 3 to 2, at Williamstown...
...variations in the width and shape of lines, together with the apparently effortless rendition of form by means of this mode, serve to bring out clearly one phase of Picasso's electicism. Despite the fact that no single part of Picasso's career can be strictly called an "Oriental Period," most of his paintings and drawings embody the abstract delicacy of the East...
...first half of the overtime the Harvard booters had the wind behind them, but a Williams rally prevented them from scoring. The final goal was made in nine minutes of the first extra period...
Showing more teamwork and far better blocking than last week, the Freshmen made their initial tally early in the first period, on a down-the-field march sparked by McNicol's tricky off-tackle running, and then a 25-yard pass, McNicol to Loring. The conversion failed...