Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is the nature of social conditions existing in large office buildings? Recently the Japanese Government determined to find out, loosed a band of secret operatives upon Tokyo. From data gathered came a report last week. Extract: "Modern office buildings are veritable wooing quarters, where flirtations are taking place. The tendency to attempt marriage as a result of chance acquaintanceship outside the home naturally is alarming so far as the well-being of the nation is concerned...
...grown up on the assumption that the responsibilities of marriage are undertaken as much between the families as between the lovers. Therefore, if office building contacts lead to irresponsible marriages, the families affected cannot be expected to assume the same responsibilities as heretofore, and, in the words of the Secret Service report: "The tendency . . . naturally is alarming ... so far as the well-being of the nation is concerned...
Today's game should provide a solution for the old question of physics, "when an irressistible force meets an immovable object what happens?" Only in this case it will be two immovable objects meeting each other. Neither team makes any secret about its strong defense. In 50 years of playing, with a game each year, the CRIMSON hurlers have allowed exactly 100 runs to their rivals. The Prince, too, has managed to limit its opponents strictly in the matter of runs. Both teams today will have to wait for a break, and when the break comes, the issue will probably...
...might tell you," he began, "that our chances don't look very good. I might elaborate on the impressive showing the Princetonian has made in its secret sessions this spring. I might try to prophesy how this game's coming out--in fact I might do a lot of things. But I've got just one thing I want to say to you. And it isn't that our pitchers have got any new shoots which can fool the other guy, or that a last minute shift in the batting order is going to make us into a different team...
Playing behind the sheltering screen of its secret practice field for the last time, the CRIMSON baseball squad will endeavor this afternoon to put the final touches on that defense which is to test the slashing attack of Old Nassau's newspaper nine tomorrow morning...