Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday saw the second day of hard work for the University football team. In the morning the practice was confined to signal drill, but in the afternoon there was nearly an hour's stiff play with the second team. Coach Haughton dispensed with the usual blackboard talk and dummy practice in the afternoon and after a very short signal drill with the whole squad, the University substitutes lined up against the second team. They played for about 20 minutes, when the University team went in and scored three touch-downs and two goals from the field in a 30-minute...
...conditions been as good as might reasonably have been expected there is little doubt that this second Harvard- Boston aviation meet would have been the most successful and sensational meet that has ever been conducted in this country. Yet in spite of everything one who saw the meet of last year could not have helped being greatly impressed with the enormous advance in the science of the aviation in so short a period
...that the proportion of evidence is remarkably small. The many forms of unscrupulousness, examples of which almost any undergraduate can narrate, are so insidious that they will run for months or even years without furnishing convincing proof of their presence. Merely occasional revelations have led to the optimistic saw that "on the whole undergraduates are pretty honest fellows, after all." Altogether they are pretty honest fellows. But, and here is an important point, there will appear a small group of men who do incalculable evil by their unprincipled methods. A natural question, then, arises: what makes these...
...then again, was the drawing meant to express humor? Ah, there is a point to consider! If the author remembers Life's "The Glorious Fourth," which perhaps he never saw, he recalls the deep moral uplift of the picture...
...affairs, he found it corrupt in its relations with the city council and its own shareholders. The latter in answer to an appeal from Mr. Spreckels, threw out the old board of directors and elected his reform ticket. As president of the First National Bank of San Francisco, he saw and studied finance and politics from the inside...