Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brilliant uniform with an aigrette a foot high on his head. The regular army and fascist battalions goose-stepped before him shouting the Fascist war cry, 'Eia, eia, eia, alala.* Mussolini was ushered in by the same war-cry when he addressed the scientific congress. He spoke mainly about the role that science plays in wartime. He said that he expected chemists to discover even more poisonous gases, and so be able to overcome more easily the nations of their enemies...
...among the minds of the world. Very little is known about El Greco. Even his name is in doubt; students believe that it was Theotocopuli, but the Spaniards of Toledo, in whose country he passed the richest part of his life, found this name barbarous, and never wrote or spoke of him except as Dominico Greco. Great princes of the 16th Century, whose eyes were unsealed, honored him by this name; the men of nearer times, putting on once more fetters laid off in the Renaissance, wondered only whether Greco was mad or astigmatic, a Cretan voluptuary, or a disciple...
Coach Bigelow welcomed the candidates, and spoke briefly on the season's plans. He emphasized the fact that members of the squad this year must be more than ever before, able to play offense and defense alike, since the changes in the intercollegiate rules have curtailed the number of players of any team who may play in one game to twelve, one of whom must be a goaltender. This new clause was aimed at the policy of wholesale substitution so much in vogue among eastern colleges Coach Bigelow declared that the rule might be waived at the Harvard-Yale games...
There was an embarrassed silence. Up spoke "Mike" Denihan, leading citizen of Soldiers Field. "Not very," declared Mr. Denihan...
...dinner for 1926, claiming to have "created football history" by what it did in 1925 and naming in the advertisements several of the guests who were present last year, among their such coaches as "Ed" Hall and "Big Bill" Edwards. Now, as chairman of the rules committee, Mr. Hall spoke at the dinner, and he began his remarks by saying that while he did not wish to seem ungracious, he ventured, nevertheless, to express the hope that no newspaper ever again would undertake such a project in connection with American intercollegiate athletics...