Word: plain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University chess team now leads the Metropolitan Chess League, having won eight matches and lost none. Two games are as yet undecided and two games remain to be played, one with the Paul Murphy chess team on March 13, and the other with the Jamaica Plain chess team on March...
There is good skating today at the following places: Hammond's Pond, Chestnut Hill; Jamaica Pond, Jamaica Plain; Franklin Field; Artificial Pond; Cambridge Skating Club, Riverside. The skating on Spy Pond, Arlington, is fair...
...Yale football team defeated Columbia on Saturday 53 to 0 the largest score made by any Yale eleven in the past ten years. During the game 13 Yale substitutes were put in. Yale's attack consisted of plain straight and cross plunges, with occasional tackles back formations. Trips was used for the first time behind the line, making long gains through guard. In the end of the first half Columbia held Yale for downs on the 2-yard line...
...most effective speakers employ the simplest methods. They must have something to say, they must mean what they say, and they must say it so that it can be heard. Sound arguments and plain facts carry more votes than party abuse or flights of rhetoric. Honest purpose, backed by character, does not always succeed, yet never more than today has the sincere advocacy of a cause a better chance of hearing...
July 3 to 8.--Professor W. B. Clark of Johns Hopkins University. "The Tertiary and Cretaceous Strata of the Coastal Plain of Maryland...