Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indications today pointed to Slagel's being on the bench at the opening whistle. Roper has declared that he will play Slagle, but he would not be pinned down to picking him as a starter. The feeling in Princeton is that he will be reserved for a time when his...
Regarding the fact that there are still several thousand tickets to be sold for the Princeton game next Saturday. Harvard officials have pointed out that there is nothing unusual in this fact, and that the same surplus existed two years ago. Whereas Dartmouth is allotted 21,000 tickets for the...
A depraved poet once pointed out that all men kill the thing they love, some with a sword, some with a word. Last week Joseph Carson, Jr., who had loved knowledge but found more of it in the head of his friend than in his own, tried to kill knowledge...
The Coolidge Tube. After receiving his gold medal last week, Dr. Coolidge brought out upon the platform an astonishing tangle of insulators, wires, supports, switches, a huge induction coil-equipment for supplying 350,000 volts. In his hand he held, a glass vessel, five feet long, bulging in the middle...
One Thomas Marshall, fisherman, looked up from nets he was tending in the middle of the English Channel and squinted off over five miles of tossing grey water. Aye, there could be no doubt of it, she was coming down, on a long slant like a tired gull. It was...