Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Defensively the Harvard team was good. The Engineers were continually halted half way down the floor and forced to resort to long shots, almost all of which went wild. As usual, Rudofsky provided the defensive features. Two and even three Tech men coming down the floor continually found him an impassable barrier...
...Engineers are expected to resort to the three man defence for part of the time as this was the formation which they were taught to play against the Terriers. M. I. T. had no great amount of coordination, but the Beaver rooters are confident that their outfit has received some essentials of team-play since Christmas. The game with B. U. has been Tech's only regular engagement this season, although since that time M. I. T. once gained the edge on the Boston men in a practice scrimmage...
...Shameen (foreign section of Canton), were five British gunboats, two French and one Portuguese warships. French bluejackets were landed and occupied the post office without resistance. The men were landed there to thwart Dr. Sun in case he decided to resort to force and to protect the foreign population...
...current year. . . . With his products not selling on a parity with the products of industry, every sound remedy that can be devised should be applied for the relief of the farmer. . . . No complicated scheme of relief, no plan for Government fixing of prices, no resort to the public Treasury will be of any permanent value in establishing agriculture. Simple and direct methods put into operation by the farmer himself are the only real sources of restoration. Indirectly the farmer must be relieved by a reduction of national and local taxation. He must be assisted by the reorganization of the freight...
...GRAESLER-Arthur Schnitzler- Seltzer ($2.50). Dr. Graesler, middle-aged physician at a small German health-resort, reserved, dry, serious, melancholy, had never had the success in life that his natural abilities promised. Left alone by the sudden suicide of his sister, he was vaguely drawn into a search for belated romance and spiritual content. Three women crossed his path. He quite intended to marry the first, but they misunderstood each other fatally, and nothing came of it. The second became his mistress-and died of scarlet fever contracted from little Fanny, Frau Sommer's child, a patient of Graesler...