Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have on our hands the insane and the 22% of our population who will never reach eleven years in mental age. They will all vote, and the highly intelligent, 15%, who think they know more than their leaders...
This two-run lead looked good until Princeton's lucky seventh. Edwer struck out docilely enough, but Cooper got a single when Rogers just failed to make a diving catch of his short fly. Lewis looped a single to short center that Jenkins just failed to reach. Campbell made a good play on Dignan's fiery grounder. Cooper and Lewis moving along a base. Caldwell, still smarting from the sting of his beating in the first Harvard game, went in to pinch hit for Foster. He missed a healthy swing at a Spalding slow ball, but connected with the next...
...recital will end promptly at 9.10 o'clock, in time for all men who have examinations to reach their examination halls...
...Olympic games, Harvard and Yale versus Oxford and Cambridge, the international polo matches, golf, lawn tennis, and other games and sports have blazed the trail, but these are exclusive competitions. The time has arrived to organize International competitions in which the working-man and the ordinary citizen who cannot reach the exclusive standard may take part real, thorough-going democratic sport on an adequate scale. It was the spirit of sportsmanship which brought the nations into the war to frustrate the claim of Germany to ride roughshod over the world. The spirit of sportsmanship--fair play for all--alone...
...crews which will participate in Poughkeepsie's regatta on June 17 will not reach Budson waters for a few days, Washington and Columbia eights will probably commence rowing Wednesday, while Cornell, Syracuse, and Pennsylvania are not expected to decamp from home waters before the week-end. The Columbia and Washington crews can get only 13 days of practice on the Hudson while the other three will get scarcely a week...