Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teams will meet in the opening games of the Inter-Fraternity Basketball League which begin in the Freshman Gymnasium at 7 o'clock this evening. The Fraternity League of 16 teams has been subdivided into three smaller groups classified as the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Leagues...
Here is a very different story from the scheme of arrangement under Faculties. Scholastic, social, athletic activity, all is bound up in the College, and it is to the smaller unit which supplies all this that the undergraduate owes whatever loyalty he may feel to an institution...
...been little friction between the two inner bodies, local and state control, while the latter and the federal administration have rubbed each other the wrong way violently enough to form a strong issue in campaigns a century apart. Indifference, and a personal touch, have helped to satisfy the two smaller divisions in their relations; but here in Massachusetts, the section in which originated the ideal of local self-government, and its expression in the town-meeting, the small towns, through their associated selectmen, have spoken vigorously against the encroachments of the Commonwealth on their local authority...
Then, considering the possibility that with smaller salvage fees other captains would ignore an S 0 S, Inspector Hoover declared: "It would be easy to place the responsibility upon a shipmaster who refused to respond, and who, refusing, should have visited upon him the severest penalty...
...pointedly ascribes to the Elephant. But the first Tuesday was a troublous time for every one, from the Head of the Pharmacists down: and in the chaos, the pirates have begun to peach on one another. There may be some names in this to be hung in a smaller, local room beside the vast public gallery dedicated to Fall-Doheny-Sinclair. At least the Democrats are entitled to hold that smile, and perhaps to scribble Governor Square down under a sub-head in their long list of Horrible Examples...