Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line-crashing Penn guard. The attacks of the Austrian army and the Quaker eleven were analogous, both directing a powerful blow at the center of the opposing line. To substitute ends and tackles of a gridiron machine on the defense for the little Corporal's cavalry was a natural step, and the center could be reenforced by the backs, just as the French center was strengthened by the reserves. Head Coach Forbes could then wait until they engaged his center, as Napoleon waited at Austerlitz. The human pile-driver was stopped, and Harvard scored a 10 to 0 victory...
...princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux, eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening past-figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by which mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...
...again to Harvard. The Harvard Athletic Association may be gilding the lily to form a league, for when one has a league one has regular teams; and when one has teams one has percentages, and when one has percentages, one has championships. After that it is but a short step to the intercollegiate contest in touch football, which first reared its irregular-shaped head last year. Harvard's defeat of Brown at that time came as tidbit for those who prefer the deft to the desperate in sport, and who think that a lateral followed by a snap pass into...
...hard time for the activities may be a passing phase, and they may be forerunners of worse. But to call in the dollar as the doctor is a step which is still ahead, the wisdom of which must be carefully weighed...
...assumed proportions which, in a sense, defy accuracy: local aid must frequently elude the party ledger; while human fallacy is an ever-present factor. The existing is still far removed from perfection, but if the two National Committees approve, even under the constraint of public opinion, something of a step has been taken in the financial purification of campaigns...