Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably keep the Crimson from practicing in the Stadium. Usually the visiting team occupies the Stadium from 3 to 4 p.m. on Fridays and the varsity moves in a few minutes later. But Army won't get going until shortly after 3:30 p.m., and Art Valpey would rather use the precious daylight minutes working in the fenced in practice enclosure than waiting for the Black Knights to finish in the Stadium...
Gummere described the admission of students as a "cross between the science of human relations and the use of a sliding technical scale." A boy's predicted rank in college, he said, plays an important role in the final decision...
McCabe has a small team experienced at most positions. A starting eleven is still a fairly nebulous thing and McCabe will use up to 30 men in the first couple of gamees. There are only four games on the jayvee schedule this year but they are all against major opposition, whereas last year's slate had more games, including a few easy ones. There will be no easy once this fail...
...welfare" has always been a nice sounding word suggestive of kindly old ladies with baskets on their arms--and "state" has remained more or less neutral. But as Humpty Dumpty scornfully said, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." And some Congressmen, and some weekly picture magazines, and some candidates for the Senate in the New York special election have been putting these two words together and packing into the result just what meanings they would choose it to mean...
...particular member of the species who was behind mo reached two major conclusions during the course of the game, and he was not averse to letting others know about them. First, he thought that the Harvard quarterbacks should call more end runs. Second, he thought that Harvard should use fewer passes...