Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work at the head of the school had proved his pre-eminent fitness for the task which he assumed in 1910, when he gave up assured distinction at the bar for an academic career. He was a man of rare endowments. From early boyhood his brilliancy of mind and strength of character was marked. Always first as a student in school, College and Law School, he nevertheless found time for much besides study. Whatever interested others in the way of physical sport or social diversion interested him and in everything he excelled. He brought to his work as a teacher...
From a comparison of the seasons, the two nines seem to be of nearly equal strength. Each has defeated Annapolis, Vermont, and Virginia, has taken two games from Holy Cross and the University of Pennsylvania, and has broken even with Brown. On the other hand, Yale took two games from Princeton while the University took three, and Yale was defeated by Williams; a nine which met a no-hit shut-out on its visit to Soldiers Field. Harvard's percentage of games won and lost is .777; Yale...
...made of wood which has not been used for such a purpose since 1860. The water which has remained inside them, apparently since they were installed, seems to have had a distinct preservative effect in that they are still in perfect condition. The men at work carefully tested the strength of the structure to determine whether or not it was safe to leave it without filling in, and decided that it was still strong enough. The walls were just as they had been left, not showing the usual signs...
...University team showed great strength in its first matches with other colleges, scoring shut-outs of 6 to 0 against Amherst on May 1 and 9 to 0 against Dartmouth a week later. The latter game marked the eighth straight victory of the team...
...interest some of your readers of Hudson Maxim's "Defenseless America" to look at a chart (p. 169) showing the strength of the various navies. In this chart the "28" German "dreadnaughts" are shown in frowning black with an addition for "battle-cruisers." The scientific man is playing an accordion, for he stretches out the "28" beyond their strength. The German "dreadnaughts" are numbered from 1 to 28 and include the battle-cruisers, one of which is the much talked of "Goeben," now leading a dissolute life as a Turkish cruiser. Six of the "28" are building. Nine...