Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team is ahead in the last quarter). Attacking teams may crouch in a "huddle" only 15 seconds giving signals. Shift plays are prohibited unless the attacking team stops a full second between the players, shift and the snapping of the ball from centre. Violation of the 15-second "huddle" rule costs five yards; violation of the one second shift rule, 15 yards...
...composition. Now it has been subdivided until almost every Freshman can discover something which especially interests him; under Professor Perry's direction it has become more spirited without ceasing to be practical. If the present plan is satisfactory and if men admitted to the College under the Highest Seventh Rule are to be provided with opportunities for special anticipatory examinations, and one presumes that such will be the procedure, the clouds will have apparently lifted from the once nebulous English...
Smoking is forbidden under any circumstances and special permission must be obtained for automobile rides that will go more than ten miles from Boston. A fashion note in the rule book decrees that hats will be worn in Harvard Square...
...English drawing-rooms which once echoed with frantic praise of Shelley's Adonais or censure of Keats' Endymion people now prefer, if literature must be mentioned, to comment briefly on what Bernard Shaw said to the old lady from Nantucket. The one astounding exception to this rule is found in the poetry of Humbert Wolfe, a young Briton whose work has actually inserted itself into the lists of best sellers. Possessed of a dexterous though partly imitative technique, it has none of the raucous and hurtling sentiment which usually gives poetry a popular appeal. The music...
When he left his college education behind him at Amherst, he married and became a minister. A little man with a juicy, passionate face, he charmed the women of every congregation before which he preached. Men, as a rule, did not like him. After a period of years he found himself at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, the pastor of a flock of golden sheep, from whose charge he derived a yearly income of $20,000, even now a generous stipend for any preacher. No doubt Henry Ward Beecher deserved such recompense for his services; he was called the most eloquent preacher...