Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stand corrected...
...Goal posts will no longer stand on goal lines, but in the same relative positions ten yards back. This shift will prevent injury to players smashing into posts on touchdown plays and will eliminate confusion caused by the old position of posts, often in the way of goal line plays and punts from back of the line. Drop-kickers will have to boot ten yards harder to score three points...
...sales to Chevrolet's 587,341. By 1926 that score was changed to read Ford, 1,810,000; Chevrolet, 1,234,850. This year in the first six months, it reads G. M. C., 586,444; Ford, 332,384. Before the end of the year the score will stand still higher in G. M. C. favor...
...captivated by the fact that there are more than six times as many in these regions as there are in the United States. But we are inclined to overlook the present insignificance of their buying power, their extreme poverty, and the political, social, and economic difficulties that stand in the way of rapid progress...
...mightiest deeds in the history of the great. It may be purely a weakness for the anecdote, but more often it is the recognition of an intrinsic merit of personal method, which ranks the first trans-atlantic passage on a popular par with the first successful attempt to stand an egg on end. And so it may be that unborn generations of Harvard Presidents will mention in the same breath the development of the tutorial system with the creation of a standard and unmistakable set of Harvard crockery. Both will be remembered as unique differing not so much in kind...