Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only place where taste wabbles in this number is in the hymn parodies Nobody yet has made sacrilege funny though all have tried; and while these parodies aren't sacrilegious, they aren't funny either. Otherwise, there is many a gleam of the old Lampy in this number; and there are improvements, tod. It is a very encouraging sign of the times; quite as encouraging, in its own way, as the events of November 24 at Yale Field. Magazines are men, as much as football teams or colleges either...
...University Club which suffered a 1 to 0 defeat in its opening game with Yale on Saturday night will probably be strengthened by the presence of George Owen. Jr., '23 in the defense line. J. P. Chase '28 may be in the University Club's forward line in place of either Everett, or Clark Hodder...
...Victory of the Class B team places the Crimson players in undisputed possession of first place in their division. They now have a ranking of nine won and only one lost as against seven won and three lost for the Cambridge Squash Racquets Club in second place...
...unique is no word for it. 'A great humanitarian who never signed a Death Warrant' but Commitments to the Insane Asylum instead, where ex-condemned on escaping would return on their own volition because the "grub" was so good. 'The State Prison was transformed from a place of horror' to where the convicts were fed on Kansas flour instead of the soft indigestible (4 out of 5) local grown wheat which was good enough for the poor damn ranchers who only paid the taxes. 'His splendid system of roads are famous' for the political...
Several hypotheses are being considered to explain the phenomena which may be due to a combination of causes. Theoretically a small tide must take place in the earth's crust as the moon revolves about the earth. But from other considerations it is not thought that this can be sufficiently large to account for the observed effect. Professor Stetson is now considering the possible effect of a tidal wave in the earth's atmosphere caused by the moon which may alter the apparent direction of the ray of light from a star and produce the effect noted. The most direct...