Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than any other from floods; that levee construction would scarcely affect Oklahoma; that the way to start controlling the Mississippi was by impounding its tributaries in reservoirs; that reservoirs affected agriculture and waterpower and should therefore not be a wholly Federal project. Senator Thomas proposed a Federal fund of ten millions, to be administered by the President in national disasters, and gave the Flood Control Committee a bill he had drawn to this effect...
...this wedge, the captain stood at midfield with the ball. The remaining ten men formed in two lines, the five lighter on one side, the heavier on the other, extending back diagonally across the field. At the signal the two lines ran forward, converged at the captain's post and kept on in a diagonal direction, gradually turning to form a wedge behind the apex of which the runner was safe for a 20 or 30 yard gain...
...been very unruly this week. Lie insists on telling everyone that Yale will win by three touchdowns, despite my explaining to loin the New liaren traditions of quarter back play. He sees no logical reason why a porous Harvard line becomes adamant within their own ten-yard line. The fact that Yale has scored but one touchdown in the Stadium since 1907 doesn't mean a things to him. He has never seen the Yale trick play of a pass from the center to the great open spaces. But the little fellow will learn. Give him time. Even Yale...
...same day is but the mild aftermath of the great struggle around the tree. In the space which now composes the Bollis-Harvard-Idonel-Bolden Chapel quadrangle grew the tree, and around it sat in a low grand stand the ladies, who cheered as vociferously then as now. Ten feet up the tree a wreath of flowers encircled the trunk, and to get a small bouquet of these flowers was the dearest ambition of every Senior. Caps and gowns were cast aside, and the oldest possible clothes were worn. It was every man for himself, and the struggles were tremendous...
...increase in the number of the candidates for honors is indicated by the fact that the percentage of the undergraduates, entering Freshmen excluded, who are approved candidates for honors amounts to 31.7, an increase of 3.4 percent over last year. Of the ten largest fields of concentration, the combined Departments of Philosophy and of Psychology lead the list...