Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair game for the student whose home is removed, perhaps by thousands of miles from the field of action? How much better equipped for the struggle is the contestant who when the becomes physically incapacitated can climb a street car and reach his home within a few minutes! Not only does the contestant laboring under unfavorable conditions needlessly suffer from physical disabilities resulting from lack of proper medical care, but must in addition sacrifice valuable time which he should devote to his studies. Has not the time come that the obsolete medical system be supplanted by more modern equipment...
Princeton took the aggressive from the opening whistle but, while most of the play was on Crimson ice, the University defense forced the Tigers to resort to long ineffective shots. The drives that did reach the cage were easily stopped by Bigelow, so that at first the Crimson seemed in no real danger. Early in the period it looked black for the University when Owen slid into the side boards and injured his nose, but after a rest he continued the game...
...really capable. Few can reach Senator Sheppard's mark of ten hours; none have threatened the world's record hung up by LaFollette back in the turgid days of 1908, when, without prompting, he said nothing continuously for eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes. On the other hand, Senator Sheppard eked out his discourse with selections from the Covenant of the League of Nations,-there being nothing else at hand sufficiently long to be helpful,-but these are effete days. Another contender, the pious Senator Brookhart, intends to read the Bible from cover to cover. It is an intriguing prospect...
With Germany's policy of "passive resistance" to France daily becoming more active, the world has increasing cause to fear lost the economic war in the Ruhr break into something more desperate. Until recently, the spectators have pursued a strict "hands off" policy. But rumors have begun to reach Paris that Great Britain and the United States are preparing for more active measures to bring about a settlement. Promptly and unmistakably, in reply to these whispers, an unofficial communication from Paris outlines France's position. "The French Government hopes sincerely that neither London nor Washington will attempt intervention of Paris...
...give us ready-made conclusions, as the Gormans generally tried to do, they compel us to like them personally. In other words, they labor to put us in a favorable mood by means of their engaging personalities. When in that frame of mind it is difficult for us to reach conclusions that are unfavorable to British plans and policies...