Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first interest in the football team belongs, are very few. The half-hour surplus allowed at the start of the afternoon would hardly lead an earnest football follower to the classroom in preference to the pre-game practice. Of course the present October must be concluded with the last quarter of the game a matter for investigation in the Sunday sports section; but posterity is still to be considered, and in its behalf the faculty might choose to accomplish thirty minutes of daylight saving before next autumn...
...last quarter of a football game invariably seems to drag on forever. Time outs are frequent, and strained nerves magnify the precious seconds as they slip by. During the final dozen plays or so, every one of the thousands of spectators who pack the giant stadia of the country every autumn Saturday is thinking almost constantly of the amount of time left before the last whistle. And it seems reasonable to suppose that every one of them is entitled to know kow many minutes there are remaining...
...their hosts for the day an opportunity to welcome on their fields the wearers of the Black, Gold and Gray--those students of a great national institution, truly representative in its membership of the whole country irrespective of section, creed or class; whose traditions for the century and a quarter since its foundation have been so closely identified with the progress and development of the country that its graduates have held high places with their contemporaries of Harvard, Yale and the other older colleges...
...greatest tradition that West Point has or can ever have, is the "long grey line" of cadets who have gone before. For more than a century and a quarter West Point has been equipping the country's military leaders. It is with pride for the past and ambition for the future that the Corps boasts of the real tradition symbolised by the motto: DUTY--HONOR--COUNTRY
According to C. F. Getchell, general manager of the Harvard Athletic Association, there has been a tremendous demand for tickets to the Army game this Saturday. Although the total number of tickets available were not all subscribed for until the late applications came in, probably a quarter of a million seats could be sold, were there that many in the Harvard Stadium...