Word: siding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Whittlesey's interesting "Travler," a tramp, seems also to have been drawn from life. At any rate, we seem to recognize the sort of road-side philosophy that he discourses, even if it is hard to reconcile ideas and vocabulary...
...election in which it will participate this year for the first time it will be guided by the noblest of motives to which the human mind is capable of responding, for it is to such motives that youth has always responded. The certainty that youth will be on the side of national honor, faith and integrity is one of the comforting reflections of the hour. It promises to marshal the recruits of the class of 1916 to the cause of America first. After all, these are nations' first line of defences. They will not fall. Boston Transcript...
...training necessary for the men on whom rests the responsibility to organize and direct the technical side of great industrial affairs must include special scientific culture together with actual experience and practice, according to Sir Robert Hadfield, an eminent English engineer in metallurgical and chemical engineering...
...snapping back was very poor; on the direct passes the runners would pick the ball out of the air on one side or the other, and twice the Yale punter had to reach and take the ball with one hand. Inaccurate passing of the sort against a sharp defence may get the Elis into trouble. The tendency of most of the Yale backs was to run high and they did not use the straight arm at all. Braden was one exception. He ran low with terrific power both in carrying the ball and in interference. The power of the Yale...
...Beating the ball by an unfair use of a starting signal is nothing less than deliberately stealing an advantage 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...