Word: subjecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cason did not say and I have never said as TIME published "that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything but football unless he is willing to subject himself to abnormal strain." It is quite different to maintain that "today in our Universities a varsity athlete to be successful must devote more time to athletics than to any other phase of his college life." This I believe to be very unwise unless he intends to become a coach, or enter professionally into the athletic field. My principal objection to varsity athletics is that they...
...feeble-minded," added Unser Anton. The subject was not mentioned again...
This is the legend which appealed most strongly to Poet Lorenzo da Ponte when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart asked him for an operatic subject.* Da Ponte was busy at the time with commissions from Emperor Joseph II, but working furiously, inspired by snuff, Tokay and his landlady's 16-year-old daughter, he wrote the libretto for which Mozart, writing notes with the same prodigality, composed the music of the opera known as Don Giovanni...
...Philosophy of Physics" is the subject of a lecture to be given in the New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 4 o'colck, by Bertrand Russell noted Philosopher...
Nothing which anyone could say in favor of enforcing the prohibitory law could possibly please the fanatical wets. Reasonable people, wets and drys alike, must approve some parts of President Hoover's message which refer to that subject. Wets cannot honestly deny his first statement, namely that the first duty of the President under his oath of office is to secure the enforcement of the laws, nor his second, namely that the enforcement of the laws enacted to give effect to the eighteenth amendment is far from satisfactory. Beyond that there may be honest differences of opinion between wets...