Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitting at the Roosevelt Proclamation, Christian A. Herter, 2nd, '15, said that the phrasing was not clear, especially trading "at your own risk" with belligerents. Should an American ship be sunk with American lives lost, public opinion might easily shift and become intensely militaristic...
...point. In the second half there was a slow start but the Dartmouth booters finally got the ball down to the mouth of the Harvard goal on a penalty shot where it was kicked around for a few seconds before Ward of Dartmouth got ahold of it and sunk it with a neat placement...
Johansen was the star of the drab affair, making several powerful shots before he finally sunk his-first goal. The Cambridge shot makers were unable to get their team play working smoothly except in a few instances and showed the lack of proper timing...
...closer examination of Jaakko's squad, a good basis for optimism can be found. Bob Playfair, pace-setter and captain of the Crimson pack, broke the HYP tape last year and was undefeated until he sunk spike in the Van Cortlandt Park Intercollegiate track. It was there that hills, the old Crimson cross country bugaboo, proved to be too stiff a handicap and forced him back to twentieth place. This year, however, Bob has been leading his teammates over the grassy slopes of the Brookline Country Club, loping over bunkers with apparent case and utter disregard of the Brookline Motor...
...explanation of this phenomenon is as follows: the surface of the mirror was polished and kept bright by generations of owners. Every time that it was polished, it was rested on its back, or carved surface. Through constant repetition of this act, the metal between the points of contact sunk, imperceptibly, but enough to allow the design on the back to be reflected from the shiny surface...