Word: strings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owing to the late arrival of the Andover goal guard Canfield, second string goal on Captain Saltonstall's team, played in the net for Andover until the middle of the period...
...first string forward line has improved with every game. Chase in particular has shown up extremely well. The substitute forwards are, however, rather below...
...decreasing the national debt. Already the field for reducing expenditures is restricted as compared to four years ago. The kind of economies which can now be made is exemplified by three announced last week: 1) Red tape, the official tying material, is to be replaced by white string, because the latter is cheaper; 2) post-office mail bags will henceforth be made of plain gray canvas instead of white canvas with a blue stripe (the saving from this last change will be about $50,000 a year?less than one twenty-third of a cent per capita); 3) the Weather...
...This was the first time I had shaken hands with Mr. Sherman, sage from the Middle West, now editor of Books. His philosophies I bow to. His essays seem to me sane and brilliant, while Mr. Menckan seems often to harp on the same rather frayed and always twanging string. Shy, slightly satirical in conversation, remote and difficult to know, Mr. Sherman possesses undoubted charm-but it is the charm of a wielder of intellectual hammerblows, the sly bearer of devastating epigrams and of violent discussions. Here are the two most interesting personalities in American criticism- opposed to each other...
...with an airtight defense gave the Freshman quintet an overwhelming victory Saturday afternoon over Worcester Academy. The score, 25-14, against the team that had swamped the 1927 five 40-12, was all the more surprising because of the absence of both regular forwards and the first and second string centers...