Word: salient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salient points of the Wesleyan agreement are published elsewhere in this issue. When they are considered together with what has already appeared in these columns on the subject, it seems unnecessary to add that the CRIMSON is in thorough accord with the purpose which brought forth this effort to restore harmony between college football and college studies...
...salient feature of the Harvard-Princeton game is not so difficult to find as it is difficult to phrase. Tolerant people might pretend that it was the heady passing of Caulkins, the running of slippery Slagle, or dauntless Dignan, or the doings of an unheard-of Princeton back named Prendergast, who-sent into the game in the last five minutes-carried the ball ten times (almost in succession), and gained 89 yards. But such statements could only be evasions. The salient feature of the Harvard-Princeton game was the doltish performance of the Harvard eleven. Score: Princeton 36, Harvard...
...Sproul, who is such a mind himself, is too reticent about striking a sufficiently salient blow for his cause. There is need for more dreaming in the American university. The progress of body, of mind is stressed too much,--the advance of fancy too little. When the wise men of his time asked Pythagoras his chief delights, he named children and stars. Most university dwellers forget the former while they hitch modernized wagons to the latter. They cannot trifle with dreams...
...Moorish tribesmen. The whole mountain, which is topped by the stronghold village of Bribane, was enveloped by the smoke of burning crops and villages and the fumes of exploding shells. Armored cars and cavalry advanced up the easier slopes, while battalion after battalion of infantry stormed the steep western salient like a rising tide, preceded by a deadly, frothing foam of shrapnel...
Results were two: 1) From El Brisbane, Maréchal Pétain commands stragetically a large territory, but any great advance, in view of the desperate resistance of the Riffians, will be extremely difficult, because the rainy season will very shortly open and transform the salient into a quagmire over which French war paraphernalia cannot be dragged; 2) politically the victory is of some importance because it has led to the surrender of the Beni Urriaguet tribe, whose territory the French now dominate...