Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideas the present generation of undergraduates likes to believe originated with it is the premise that athletics are overemphasized. This, too, however, is one of the oldest of theories. In the seventh century B.C., Xenophanes, a philosopher who expressed his theorics in verse, deplored the overappreciation of the Olympic heroes and the lack of recognition for wisdom of the cort he boasted...
Clarence H. De Mar of Melrose, Mass., 38, who sets type six days and teaches Sunday School the seventh, last week jogged over 26 miles and 385 yards of warm asphalt in 2 hr. 40 min. 221/5 sec., won the annual marathon of the Boston A. A. for the fifth time...
Sunday has benerally been a dull day for the Vagabond. In the days of childhood, the seventh day was associated with interminable and dreary calls on friends of the family, where an incredibly hard and stiff-backed chair was usually provided for him, from which perch he was left to contemplate the family portraits while his elders discussed matters beyond his ken. Now that such ordeals are done, the Sabbath passes in a flaccid mood that contenplates and condemns all things, particularly those of an academic tinge. There is scant pleasure in a contemplation of Monday's lecture schedule...
...winning run was scored with two batsmen retired in the seventh. Captain Tremper of the Visitors walked, and took third on a drive by Becker. Connell got in front of a pitched ball, and Thompson's single scored Tremper and Becker...
Another brace of Crimson counters came in the seventh, when Burns walked with one out, Jones filed out, and Zarakov singled. Lord walked, and then Armstrong, Penneylvania second sacker, kicked away Tobin's grounder, Zarakov following Burns across the rubber...