Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeat of the first team in its match at the University Squash Courts on Saturday, reduces the University to a tie for third place in the race for the Metropolitan League Championship...
...second place the tank will be of use in the study of labor under specialized conditions, such as those encountered in tunnel construction, caisson building, altitude flying, and other trades where workers must endure abnormal atmospheric changes. Bicycles and rowing machines will be installed to measure the quantity of work a man can accomplish under varying conditions...
...those who like to stamp with their feet on the earth and feel that they're here because they're here the theories of Professor Stetson relative to the effect of the rising and the setting of the moon upon the latitude of a place may come as disturbing news. They may feel the solid ground fall beneath their feet, and when they think they're Fifty North and Forty West they may be in quite another locality...
...pretty upsetting to the stand-patters. The philosophers who insist that place is only relative, after all, will hall a support. We live in a world of change, they tell us, but we hadn't expected such confirmation. Some of us will take the news with equanimity, content to act in what appears to be a moving picture, but there is always the small person who, told that Niagara Falls was eating its way backward, eventually to wash away a nearby village, wept, fearful for the safety of a cherished aunt in that village...
...pages of college papers. The latest criticism, from the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, is an epitome of all that has been said on the subject lately. It asserts that college editors fail to harmonize the tone of their editorial columns with the responsibility that is theirs by virtue of their place as representatives of the college in print. Cynicism, flippancy, and disregard of conventionalities are specific charges...