Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousands of Princetonians have gone out into the world quite freed from the inferiority complex because of the peculiar efficacy which Tiger teams had against the Crimson. And this was salutary because, as a matter of fact, the Princetonian who feels inferior is suffering only by the kindest stretch of the imagination from a complex. But even an actual inferiority can be swept away in the glamor of a football triumph. It should be unnecessary to point out that the benefits were conferred upon many who never made Coach Roper's squad. When Wittmer gets loose the most meager freshman...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra is sufficient to evoke enthusiasm from The Vagabond, who has not forgotten the first of the series of concerts which have periodically relieved the strain of a pedestrian education. Thursday's program from Beethoven. Stravinsky, and Tchaikowsky holds a pleasant promise to carry over the last stretch of hour examinations...
...mistake. He tells you also that they are smaller. I recall one such enthusiast who insisted to me that present-day graduates were 'runty.' Here he is more seriously in error, for where physical examinations and measurements in the colleges have continued over any long stretch of time, they indicate, if anything, that the average freshman is somewhat taller...
...minute touchdown to win its sixth consecutive victory by 6 to 0 count. It was during this series of games that the West Point combination received its worst set-back, that in 1899 when Harvard piled up a total of 29 points to its opponent's 0. During this stretch, too, the aspiring generals succeeded in making their only score prior to last year's game when they sent over a touchdown...
...have always been unobtrusive, modest. In philanthropy he does not bunch his hits as do the Rockefellers, but scatters gifts of $100,000 or more to dozens of causes and institutions. Sometimes he gives to institutions he has never seen. Though the complete listing of the Harkness benefactions would stretch over columns, these are representative, most of them recent...