Word: turned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second time this week the University football squad was given a comparatively light day's workout yesterday afternoon. There was no hard scrimmage, but teams A and B lined up against each other for a short while, each in turn being instructed in both offensive and defensive work, while at the same time the coaches corrected the faults of individuals. There were no opportunities for long runs or spectacular plays, but two or three pretty forward passes were successfully completed. Though the work was light, the men were kept on the go all the time and not allowed to slow...
...other than s a high sounding phrase; that there are those whose sympathies are with the noble causes of nations other than France. To erect in the name of the university a memorial such as was proposed and in the spirit proposed would be to disregard these facts and turn Harvard tolerance into another high-sounding phrase...
...portrayed by Sir Herbert Tree, Wolsey is the shrewd, stern, diplomat of history, quick to see the turn of the tide, arrogant in his power, forward even in his fall. Miss Mathison's Queen Katharine was good, as her parts usually are. She is best, as always when subdued, tending to become theatrical when roused to any great pitch of emotion. Miss Mackay's Anne Bullen could hardly have been bettered, portraying as it did the willful, attractive personality of Henry's second wife. But the master characterization of all was Lyn Harding's King Henry. The easy going, blustering...
...First sergeants, after the dismissal of the companies, will report the result of the roll-call, including the names of absentees, to first sergeant Walker, Company C, who will in turn make the usual report required of the head monitor of a class. Similar reports will be made at all formations hereafter until instructions to the contrary are issued...
...wonder why I am satisfied to be planted so far from the war area. As an answer, remember that all the men we are working with are Territorial who are awaiting their turn to go "up the Gulf," wounded and convalescents who come back with nerves shattered by the "hell" of Mesopotamian heat and disease, and regulars who have to guard the "no man's land" dividing India from Afghanistan and Kashmir. This work is as necessary as munitions factories and telegraphs in the organization of a big army and after all the stories I have heard from...