Word: wield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater development of the contact between student and teacher, English A, as well as the tutorial system, offers opportunities worthy of inquiry. In this first year of college work a man may wield great personal influence over his Freshmen, and it is important that the work be made sufficient appealing to draw those who have the power to exert such an influence. Some motion has already been made to give the instructors a chance to express their own tastes in the particular kind of work they are to teach. In the second half year the various sections of the course...
...greatest difficulties confronting Harvard football leaders this year is lack of first rate substitute material. Everywhere is this dearth unmistakably prominent--everywhere, that is, except among the ends. While the coaches have been scouring all quarters for possible quarterbacks, reserve halfbacks, and tackles, they have been forced to wield the axe with a heavy hand among the end candidates and to threaten further devestation in this department, which has reached a very high potential standard...
...history and the affairs of state. "Frederic and the Great Coalition" is more than a fascinating historical sketch, is a psychological treatise of a historical subject, only too rare in biographical writing. The bulky volume. "The Reflections of an Unpolitical Mind" was the first attempt in Germany to wield into a unit the political ideas and aspirations of Prussia and the philosophical and artistic "Weltanschauung" of the country of "poets and dreamers...
That Colonel Lawrence was able to rouse and wield the fierce, childish, nomadic Arab tribesmen into a victorious insurrection gives him a place in history altogether remarkable and imperishable. Remains to estimate his literary prowess...
...Massachusetts General Hospital where for some time he has been undergoing treatments for sinus trouble. His condition is rapidly improving and it is thought that he will be able to return to college within the next week. No operation has been necessary and Platt will soon be able to wield an oar although probably it will take some time for him to get into condition...