Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...less of Mahan. He weighs 171 pounds. Bond was the line plunger and defensive back of the Freshmen during the season just passed. He hails from Everett High School where as a schoolboy player he made a great reputation. Since the University he has put on weight strength, at the same time retaining and improving, his knowledge and ability play the game. He should prove a great man for the "Haughton machine" of 1916. He weighs 176 pounds...
...case of Belgium was cited as an instance of the disastrous results of insufficient military protection. The year before the war broke out Belgium instituted compulsory military service. If she had done this five years before and so been able to show a defensive strength of perhaps 500,000 men, as against the 100,000 she did have immediately avail- able, Germany would have thought twice before invading Belgian territory...
...suffer heavily by graduation next year, not so much in numbers as in the quality of the men. The graduation of Barrett will be a serious blow. The coaches cannot hope to find his equal in years, and will have to seek to make up by all-around team strength what they lose in the departure of this unusual players. He has done more for Cornell football than any man in the history of athletics at Ithaca, and largely through his own brilliant playing has the team gone through the season without a defeat. Collins, Cool, and Shelton will also...
...battalion will be divided into war strength companies and separate drill hours assigned the different companies, ample opportunity being given everyone to sign up in the company whose drill hours are most convenient...
...Tyler, three pitchers considered at best only fair performers. At the end of the season these men were considered the greatest trio of pitchers on any team in the country, for Mitchell had not only taught them how to pitch, but had shown them how to save their strength for the time when most needed...