Word: point
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there should be a joint meet this year it would break the tie that now exists between the Cambridge-Oxford and Harvard-Yale teams. The first engagement took place in 1899 on British soil, where the English triumphed five points to four, each place counting a point. On a return meet in 1901 in New York the Americans were more fortunate, winning by a 6 to 3 score, and this performance was again repeated in England three years later. In 1911 the Englishmen came to the fore again with a 5 to 4 victory, thus tying the series...
...bandits what they shall and what they shall not do. Americans find it hard to believe that the Mexican Federal authorities are as weak as President Carranza alleges they are; when it comes to a pinch, the Mexican executive can manage to get an American freed. The point is that he sometimes does not want...
Colgate and West Point are looked upon as likely contenders in the 1920 schedule. This year the Yale football management was late in arranging a schedule and so was unable to book many of the teams which it wished to play. Since Princeton and Annapolis are to meet next year, the Elis are confident of being able to succeed in getting the Army team to travel down to Yale...
...server wins the first point, the score is called 1-in, if the receiver wins the first point, the score is 1-out, when each player wins a point the score is called 1-all. The play is continued in this manner until either player has won four points, when the game is called for that player unless his opponent has three points. The score is then called 4-3 or 3-4 as the case may be, and the game is scored for the player who first thereafter gains a lead of two points." The new system will overcome...
...sure as to how much comfort Alexander-wherever he now may be-is taking in the thought that, 2242 years after his early demise at Babylon, lots and lots of people on this little pin-head in the cosmos still persist in calling him "the Great." The real point is this, that Whitney's career as a man "who did things" is still a lesson, an example, an inspiration, for the young American of today...