Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next week-end found a highly-rated Dartmouth team sweeping into Cambridge and running amuck of a driving Crimson offense. It was sheer power which enabled the University eleven to carry the ball practically the whole length of the gridiron in the closing minutes of play and add the final touchdown to a glorious 19 to 7 victory. The Green score was the result of a clever aerial attack which frequently baffled the Cambridge defenders...
...forgotten that at inaugural President Hoover had recommended the transfer of Prohibition Enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.* Now he was prepared to pass the whole troublesome question to Congress for solution. With the Law Enforcement commission and the proposed congressional commission at work on the same subject, many an observer thought he saw a gradual stifling of Prohibition as an issue for political agitation...
...Front changes. Now we see tanks come our way, squashing dead and wounded, we see a man with a hose spouting liquid fire. "He fell in October, 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front...
...however inadequate a single three hour examination may be to test the fruits of a whole year's work, it would seem to be a sound principle that a man should be graded on his knowledge and ability at the completion of his labors rather than during their course. It is partially the recognition of this principle that has given rise to the divisional examinations. And just as in the awarding of a degree it is of importance what a student can show in the second half of his Senior year and not what he has done as a Sophomore...
Such a system, which puts a premium on short disconnected papers and reducing the final examination to a position of comparative unimportance, cannot justify itself in Harvard University where the whole trend is towards comprehensive examinations, such as the divisional...