Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Golf is not a game which Harvard from the point of view of either time or money. The situation of the University is such that it is safe to say there will never be golf course near enough to the Yard to put golf in a class of popularity with any of the major sports and the majority of the minor. The absence of financial backing from the Harvard Athletic Association is perfectly explicable to all who realize the stringency in this respect that has been forced upon the Association by its building plans...
...efforts at another office. In 1920 he stood pat. Harding offered him a chance to continue in active politics, inviting him to accept the post of Secretary of the Navy. Lowden refused. He knew nothing about the work that had been offered him and was frank enough to say...
...Some say horseshoe pitching developed in imitation of the more courtly game of quoits. Perhaps, so far as it concerns the codification of horseshoe pitching as a formal sport, this is true, but it is certain that in the beginning quoits developed out of horseshoe pitching. Followers of both games argue the question at great length. Horseshoe pitchers point out that, next to ringing church bells, throwing horseshoes was the sin which most tempted the tinker, John Bunyon, before God was made manifest to him. Now there are pitching courts in the public parks of most big cities. Quiet, sunburned...
Said J. H. Furay, vice president in charge of foreign news of the United Press: "The [Western Union] regulation is really not new. The United Press has not been using contractions for some time, and the experience has shown us that skillful filers are able to say in plain English, condensed and skeletonized, the same things without using 'cablese' and in the same number of less words...
...national, representative schedule may well lead to intersectional contests, with time-consuming trips, and all the other evils that go with "championships" and comparative scores. And the theory that graduates in distant states should occasionally be treated to a show of Harvard football in their back yard, is, to say the least, subject to abuse...