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Word: smallest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Football, the most strenuous of American out-door sports, claimed five victims during the 1919 season. The number of deaths--the smallest in years--was five less than in 1918, and seven under the toll of two years ago. There were 18 lives lost during the 1916 season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Number of Deaths From Football In 1919 Season Has Been Only 5 | 12/4/1919 | See Source »

...collections for the fund yesterday were the smallest since, the campaign began, but the fourth week closed last night with 54 1-2 per cent of the desired amount pledged. When the results of last night's round-up in New York are known, the fund is expected to jump to well over 60 per cent of the full amount. Up to last night Boston had subscribed $3,342,945; New York's total was $3,065,406, and the rest of the country had pledged $1,846,988, bringing the grand total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Endowment Subscriptions Slump | 10/29/1919 | See Source »

...Palmer Stadium on November 8. Of this number of applications only about 100 are for seats in the cheering section. As this section holds 1000, it can be readily seen that more applications are necessary in order that the University be well represented at the game. The smallest number with which it will be possible to form the customary "H" during the singing of the "Marseillaise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONLY 384 PRINCETON APPLICANTS | 10/28/1919 | See Source »

...first two tests were concerned with the powers of perception and observation. A man was told to pick out the smallest square in a bevy of squares, to mark words with similar meanings in a jumbled collection, to unravel sentences. One test required the student to pick the proper answer to a question out of four possible ones given. For example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW COLUMBIA TESTS POPULAR | 9/26/1919 | See Source »

With only 30 candidates out on the first day of practice, the smallest number ever reporting in the last ten years, the University and Freshman cross-country teams bid fair to suffer from lack of material unless more men come out within the next few days. The University runners have established a splendid cross-country record in the last decade of dual meets with Yale, losing only once in the whole period, and setting a standard that the succeeding teams will have to go far to equal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YEARLING HARRIERS CALLED OUT THIS AFTERNOON AT 3 | 9/24/1919 | See Source »

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