Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saved in the end not by the pace which he has maintained but by the apparent agility with which he has greeted the opening gun. The opposite may happen equally well and a man for whom the basic elements of a course are difficult to grasp may never reach more than an average grade, due to the had impression made in November; for, in spite of assurances to the contrary, the handwriting on the wall in November is usually indelible and has not been wholly obliterated in February...
...substance, Andrew Haddon of Edinburgh University gave vent to the boast that he would "smite them hip and thigh, and scatter the bones of their arguments to the four winds." The whole contention of the English speakers was that pacifism was a good peace time doctrine, but did not reach the fundamental causes...
...Yale and Princeton hammered, yawed and pounced to victories over Holy Cross, Brown and Washington & Lee. Harvard hurried through holes in Holy Cross to win 14-6; Washington & Lee hesitated and let Princeton sneak twice between them, 13-0. Yale facing Brown with nine six-footers, was out of reach...
...brother's first game error in the third inning, and Pitcher Aldridge making a wild pitch in the eighth. ¶ Errors apparently could have played no part in the outcome of the third game, which the Yankees won 8-1. Pitcher Herbert Pennock permitted no Pittsburgh player to reach first base until one man had been retired in the eighth inning. Against such pitching no game can be won. Yet Pittsburgh errors again helped every New York run. In the first inning, when New York made two runs, Pitcher Meadows deflected a ground ball away from Second Baseman Rhyne...
...Tomlinson has come to the United States chiefly through the efforts of his publishers, who have just put out his first novel. "Galleons Reach." This book has enjoyed considerable fame and has put Tomlinson in the opinion of many in the same position that Joseph Conrad held when his novel "Chance" was published after 20 years of writing...