Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Putnam '30, quarterback; A. E. French '29 and David Guarnaecia '29, halfbacks; and W. R. Harper '30, fullback was the eleven which ran through a light workout, kicking off and using some of its simpler plays and forward passes in signal drill. After ten minutes of this sort of exercise while the Crimson supporters cheered them on, the players trotted off the field leaving teams B and C and the seconds to hold the spotlight...
...used methods which they themselves considered antiquated, and taught subjects which they would have admitted not one in a hundred of their pupils would ever need to know. Boys and girls bursting with vitality and the exuberance of youth were cramped for hours into set positions, while by a sort of water-cure process knowledge was pumped into them from books duller than a doctor's dissertation in philosophy...
Preparations of the most laborious and costly sort began more than a year ago. Over $4,000,000 was spent on new equipment for railways, illumination, telegraphs, telephones, telephoto and radio. Since a little rice would be offered to the Sun Goddess by the Tenno, at one point in the ceremonials, a diligent search had to be made throughout the Empire for persons sufficiently exemplary to be entrusted with growing this rice...
Potential travelers to the Riviera who think that they can ask every sort of question about the new route at the French Government's Office du Tourisme, No. 4 East 52nd St., Manhattan, may be piqued to discover that certain quaint and prudent conditions are imposed. In an "authorized and official" French Government release it is stated: "Any legitimate questions regarding travel in France, sent to this bureau in good faith will receive quick attention and reply...
German citizens who expected to see the mace of Government fall upon the truculent employers like the vengeful hammer of Thor were surprised and perturbed to see that nothing of the sort happened last week. Many a legal expert opined that the State is not empowered to enforce such awards, and gratuitously added that the Ministry of Labor has put through many such in the past chiefly by might of bluff...