Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of years ago this system of awarding the small minor H to those teams that defeated Yale and also won three quarters of their scheduled contests was adopted. At the time this was an intelligent forward step but with the change in the attitude of undergraduates which has taken place recently it has become completely antiquated. Today men are primarily interested in playing the game, and although the desire to win is naturally still a vital factor in all athletic encounters it is not the completely dominant one that it once...
...enjoy TIME immensely and I think you improve every week. But in the article on Mrs. Hoover in the last number, where you say, "The small-town lawyer's wife has been succeeded by the cosmopolite's wife," you seem to depreciate Mrs. Coolidge. When have we ever had a more gracious lady in the White House, or one more universally beloved throughout the land? I, too, admire Mrs. Hoover, but I never did like the cry, ''The King is dead! Long live the King...
When TIME errs, the world demurs but TIME and old-TIMERS profit by the misthinks or mistakes. Let none therefore mistake me for a TIME naggler in correcting TIME'S adequate account of Manhattan's Architectural League Exhibition. The small mistake appears in TIME'S reference to "small" Harvey Wiley Corbett, noted for his tall self and tall towers. Lofty-spire-and-pediment-building Corbett stands well over six feet on the bare foot...
...will sit again. The sky was blue, the crowd was happy. It was a Sunday ball game. Suddenly, without warning, clouds appeared, thunder clapped, rain poured down. Straw hats, spring clothes were in danger. The bleacherites arose en masse and rushed for the wire-lined exits. The exits were small, the rushers many. In the right-field bleacher section, called "Ruthville" because George Herman ("Babe") Ruth knocks most of his homeruns there, a young girl and an old man were trampled to death, 62 others injured...
...Ever since the close of the War the American government has consistently taken this position. It has never accepted membership on the reparations commission. The comparatively small sums which it receives under the Dawes Plan are applied solely to the settlement of the claims judicially ascertained by the mixed claims commission (the United States and Germany), and to the repayment of the expenses of the American Army of Occupation at Coblenz...