Word: certain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cornell's weaknesses are lack of pitching strength beyond Sickles and a tendency for their infield to blow up completely on certain occasions, but at present they are in a first place tie with Harvard...
...more than ten years Harvard has decided to send a full team to the National Intercollegiate golf tournament to be held at Des Moines, Iowa, next month. Perhaps it was the sweep which the Crimson link-men made in the Easterns which prompted this move, but it is certain that they deserve to be there because their entry will be a strong one. The Hoddermen suffered four 5 to 4 defeats this spring, and it was only over the last weekend that they reached their peak...
...three-fold growth of the city population, while the rural population stood still. After 1900 the trend frightened the military clique into demanding increased tariff protection for the farmer, and just before the famous shot was fired at Sarajevo the Kaiser's advisers were only reasonably certain that the food situation could withstand...
...this campaign of ours we have a strong, practical demonstration of neighborliness and tolerance. How vastly different, by way of contrast, is our situation from that in certain countries overseas where we have been witnessing a racial and religious persecution so cruel as to render life almost intolerable. Is there danger of such racial or religious antipathies crossing the ocean and finding foothold here? I cannot believe it. Yet, from time to time, even in this country, we hear vague, intolerant mutterings...
...What? Director Barr spent his spare time last week warning himself against the perils of Bigness and Popularity. So far the Museum has amply proved its intellectual honesty, to the dinner-table discomfiture of certain conservative trustees. Director Barr is delighted and others are somewhat surprised that the trustees have supported him so well...