Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Especially startling to everyone present was the showing of Norm Blotner, who was shifted from his regular position at first defense to play in the midfield at second defense. Twice Blotner, in spite of his inexperience in the forward wall, plowed through the Red defense for goals...
...Spanish-American War to the status of a slap-stick melodrama, and this attempt has proved quite successful. Likewise, Mr. Gregory Mason's account of the War has many more characteristics in common with the Gilbert and Sullivan type of opera than with an armed conflict. He has seconded Millis' motion on the subject by treating the 1898 embroilment as a schoolboy's scuffle. But, like many second-the-motions, "Remember the Maine" is at best only a weak reiteration of something that has been gone over before in more positive fashion...
...Mason apparently has two goals in his book, the first of which is to give the atmospheric background of the War, both in the United States, and in the field of military operations; and the second to give an interesting account of the actual operations and personalities of the War. The first six chapters give the reader a fairly compelling description of the temper of the period preceding the conflict, employing the well-worn system of correlating diverse events throughout the country to show the styles, manners, opinions, interests of the American people. But after Mr. Mason gets his reader...
...probable lineup for the Crimson will have Hanford at goal; Livingston, point; Lewis, coverpoint; Blotner, first defense; Ferris, second defense; Willard, center; Doughty, or Downey, second attack; Zouck, first attack; Hammond, out home; and Anderson, in home...
With democracy anchored to the hearts of its people, the West remains the stronghold of Protestant, middle class liberalism, William Allen White, famous Kansas journalist told his audience last night in the second of three lectures in the New Lecture Hall...