Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athletics are in control of the faculty and they keep [our] sport clean." President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth-"I pass the report over as inconsequential at this time." Football Coach William Winston Roper of Princeton-"In ten years of coaching I've never made an effort to recruit a schoolboy athlete." Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes of Columbia: "We at Columbia College have no athletic scholarships...
...pretended incomprehensibility of the Einstein theory has been used as capital by professional anti-Einsteinians. These have had a recent recruit in a churchman of prominence, who has made his inability to understand it sufficient cause to utter a warning to the layman not to be misled by such tempting obscurities. Without prejudice to the cause of religion I may remark that theological discussions have not at all times been distinguished by their character of lucidity...
Boyds. "Starring William Boyd" & "Featuring William Boyd" appeared simultaneously last week on the posters of United Artists and Pathé. Both posters showed pictures of a manly, straight-featured William Boyd-the Pathé Boyd a film actor of long standing, the United Artists Boyd a new recruit from the legitimate stage (What Price Glory}. Though each William Boyd had baptismal right to his name, Pathé prepared to sue United Artists...
...bottles of wine into a vase and drank it in one breath-as a toast to the 13 cantons of Switzerland." Mr. Ripley had proof for this statement in French histories, which told how Marechal de Bassompierre, famed convivial, was sent by King Louis of France in 1625 to recruit Swiss guards and gain a pledge of allegiance from the Swiss cantons. Two Manhattan physicians, last week, said that the medieval historians had exaggerated, for it is impossible for the human system to hold 13 pints of any liquid at any given moment, and also impossible to drink more than...
Last week Candidates' Row got a recruit...