Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson Players fought all through the game, but were unable to cope with the running and passing attack of the invaders, who also out-kicked the Harvard team on every occasion. Harvard Wilson, Dartmouth left halfback, scored all three of the winners' touchdowns, and Rollins, quarterback, added the extra point in every instance...
Surviving settlers of Dodge City, Kan., met there last week in a "Last Roundup." Hoar and weazened pioneers spun yarns of the bad days, recalled the town's early importance as shipping point for buffalo hide, as "payoff centre" after the Santa Fe railroad went through (1872). A parade was held with a covered wagon, stage coach, "buffalo bones" float (displaying a famed pioneer commodity), oldtime "soddie...
East: Columbia v, Pennsylvania at New York; Dartmouth v. Cornell at Hanover; Georgetown v. West Virginia at Washington; Harvard v. Holy Cross at Cambridge; N. Y. U. v. Missouri at New York; Syracuse v. Colgate at Syracuse; Army v. Dickinson at West Point; Navy v. Wake Forest at Annapolis; Williams v. Amherst at Williamstown; Yale v. Princeton at New Haven...
Philadelphia. Magazines packed in bundles of five averaged 25? the bundle. All this seemed very commonsensical from the Post Office point of view. To the indigent reading public it doubtless seemed a fine and thoughtful Federal service. But the publishers of national magazines were sore vexed when lately, they found out what was going on. Any thriving magazine has a constant demand for back numbers. Thrifty, self-respecting publishers are at pains to recover all unsold or undelivered copies. The National Publishers Association registered a sharp protest with Postmaster-General Brown, who referred the matter to slender Arch Coleman...
...bankrupt. It has, in fact, ceased to interest physiologists in recent times. . . . One often meets the statement . . . that scientific physiology is progressively revealing the mechanism of life. In the light of actual progress this is quite untrue, and can only be described as claptrap. . . . Science brings us to a point at which we require more than Science." Biologist Haldane takes philosophy seriously. To him, philosophy is only another word for religion. But orthodox religion will not find much in common with such statements as this: "Belief of any kind in what is supernatural seems to me to imply a faltering...