Word: saying
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are too many good things in this special number to be adequately diagnosed. Off-hand, we'd say "The Game as Seen by the CRIMSON" and "General Information for Yale Visitors" were the funniest things in the book, but the laugh limit is by no means two. The prologue, too, stands out--not by reason of its prime position, but because it carries (as they say) a punch in every line. You can like the prologue whether or not you care for poetry. In fact the less you care for poetry the more you'll like the prologue...
...should get it a day off and come to see the footballers tell it to Mr. Haughtonstein to say to the Freshmen not to get fresh with Izzy Kaplan because some day Izzy will knock them for a ghoul because Izzy is a hard egg when he is mad and I hope you feel the same...
...comparative danger of football, I can say that in my lifetime I have played football with hundreds of young men and boys, and I have never heard of one of them being fatally injured in the game; in the comparatively short time that I have been flying I have gone up with three pilots who have subsequently been killed...
...play fought their way to a tie shows the stuff they are made of." Relative to the Yale game he said, "I was greatly impressed by the Yale team, their strength and power. But look at that eleven," (turning to the men on the stage). "No man can say that Yale will outfight us on Saturday...
Aviation has been out adrift as it was struggling to gain a foothold in peacetime industrial affairs. Competent authorities say that the industry is 90 per cent, liquidated, and that the remaining 10 per cent, is slowly but surely breaking up. Major-General Menoher, Director of Air Service, recently testified before a senatorial investigation committee that production is at a standstill, and that the aviation personnel has been wiped out. Such a condition is the more deplorable upon consideration of the action of foreign countries. Already French and English companies are developing the airplane as a cargo carrier in South...