Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chess (with occasional tournaments in all of them), and get a speaker for the Sunday evening sing-song. I manage the restaurant (with an average of 600 sales daily at about 2 cents each), provide a lecture on India every Wednesday, run a Bible class Sunday afternoon and a short prayer meeting every night, and spend every morning taking letters by dictation and such things in the hospital a mile away. Together we run "movies" on Friday and Saturday evenings, and on Thursday, which is both the soldiers' holiday and the closing of the English mail, we do nothing...
...from the other side. An honest starting signal is good football, but a starting signal which has for its purpose starting the team a fraction of a second before the ball is put in play in the hope that it will not be detected by the officials is nothing short of crookedness...
...Talking to your opponents, if it falls short of being abusive or insulting, is not prohibited by the rules, partly because it ought not to be necessary and partly because no rules can make a gentleman out of a 'mucker.' No good sportsman is ever guilty of cheap talk to his opponents...
...Plays must be original, and no translations or adaptations will be accepted. Dramatizations of novels, short stories, etc., may be entered, provided full rights to make such dramatizations have been secured...
...short a time and with so few cases concerned, no general conclusions can be drawn, nor the permanent value of the serum established. The limited experience, however, of the Commission corroborates to date the results obtained in New York and elsewhere...