Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basket turns; slowly but steadily, with the measured pace of an ancient pendulum. Half way round to the right, then, back a full turn to the left, a never ceasing motion. Visitors that it is bound to slow up and finally watch it with fascination, expecting stop, but the basket continues to swing, just as it has done for the last six months...
...chief difficulty which the coaches have been forced to face is the small turn-out of Freshmen so far. Only 50 or 60 have reported, which is not nearly enough for the foundation of a successful team. Coach Farrell has again issued a call to all Freshmen to join the squad. This Applies particularly to men who are not running because they are on probation and can not compete this year...
Coach Farrell, who was the first to address the meeting expressed his satisfaction at the size of the initial turn-out. He then went on to stress the necessity of beginning intensive practice and training immediately on account of the short season. Captain Tibbetts reviewed the success of the track team during the fall and winter seasons and pointed out what an excellent chance the team had to beat Yale and place high in the intercollegiate this spring...
...Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson (above Albany). Partly because this canal has been a very expensive white elephant, partly because it would profit greatly from an increased volume of traffic through its heart, partly because it saw the nation's need, New York lately offered to turn its canal over to the Government and then put on political pressure to get the Government to accept. Army engineers were assigned to survey the cost and feasibility of widening, deepening and operating the canal...
Baldwin Soothing. Since the debate was waxing toward midnight, Premier Stanley Baldwin arose to turn on the Government's Conservative steam roller in defense of Sir Austen. Humorously he twitted Mr. George with "clothing himself in an air of lachrymosity" and basing his accusations upon "necromantic divinations of conversations which never occurred" (i.e., between Briand and Chamberlain). Finally he spread soothing words as with a trowel; implied that the League was none the worse for its "manifestation of human nature not wholly of a happy kind...