Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Like nearly all large cities, Chicago is grievously misgoverned;-but its misgovernment, being particularly insidious, deserves especial attention as a warning to the rest of the nation. Its mayor, "Big Bill," surnamed "The Big Bunk," is hardly more than a political moron, but his misgoverning hand is guided by Fred Lundin, one of the shrowdest craftsmen in American politics, who has built up an all-encompassing system under which nearly every employe pays tribute to the coffers of its chief;-a system which is yet to be defeated at the county polls...
...football, to baseball, crew, and hockey, in the necessity of drilling in details and technique. "Some men may say that Cornell and Pennsylvania get their victories because of conditions different from those here at Harvard, but any man had better throw that idea out of the window as bunk. At Cornell they have 250 men each fall for the cross country team alone. They fight with every drop of fighting blood they have." He insisted that attention must be given to details of how to work, how to run, how to train, and unceasing fight...