Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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High praise, indeed Another instance, showing his speed and ability to size up a play, was when he appeared like a shot and smeared a forward pass that Ames was about to receive with an open field for a touchdown. There is every reason to believe he will turn himself loose in his last game for the Blue, which, as we said above, will make the Casey vs. Legore for sensations complete. Boston Traveler...
...size of Brown University and the character of its football teams warrant the respect of our best trained eleven. If the present coaching system which, by the way, is beyond criticism as regards the making of football players, believes a comparatively easy contest before the Yale game as necessary for the successful development of the team, the date of the Brown game should be earlier in the football schedule. Either give Brown a date when Harvard's strongest team can oppose her, or run the ever-present chances of injuries to our best players and play the first-string...
...Junior Class holds its first smoker in the Union tonight and it is expected to break all records for size and enthusiasm. 1918 has reached the half-way mark in its career and is now on the home stretch. Tonight's smoker is the first chance for the class to gather on masse since the dinner last January. Every man present will enjoy seeing his friends and will be pleasantly entertained. The fun starts...
This is the only portable theatre in the country with the exception of one in Chicago. The theatre is a complete theatrical stage, fully equipped to give a performance upon a stage of any size, as shown by its distinct success at the Century Theatre and the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York. It has been travelling for some time now, giving performances at many of the Eastern colleges and universities...
...Keep at it all your life and you will get part of an education if you are among the successful. Don't build your character like a woman fixes a sewing machine--removing everything that should be left stationary and putting oil on the belt. I can tell your size by what you are over-coming. Striving for big things is what makes men like Abraham Lincoln...