Word: even
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...season. Of the two Harvard men placed on the second team. Bland was captain of the 1930 soccer team, while Broad-bent was yesterday chosen leader of next fall's eleven. The position of one player was changed, in order that he might be placed on the first team, even though outclassed at his own position. Stollmeyer of Dartmouth, brother of A. M. Stollmeyer '30, captain of last year's Harvard eleven, was shifted for this reason from center to right inside forward...
...allowed under the present rules. These are functions which can not be carried out efficiently by the captain, whose worries are great enough now to affect his playing ability. Certainly no one wants a coach who moves his men about like pawns on a chess board even if the rules allowed such manipulations. His position is on the sidelines during a game and his presence there can hardly be said to have an unwholesome influence on the game...
...civilization of peoples with one dominating idea-to continue to exist. Great circular cities were built consisting of low buildings which hugged the ground . . . cities like gigantic mushrooms, walled and roofed in materials magnifying the little warmth that still emanated from the sun, shutting out snow and cold." Finally even these failed. "Into the frozen earth bored the huge electric drills...
...plane of equable temperature within the earth Man re-established himself, tunneling thousands of miles, gradually building his subterranean cities. Working hours were continuous, but no one's shift was long. A rigid socialism did away with even the need of money. Industrial sections, the huge synthetic food-producing plants, were centralized, far removed from residential and play centres. Travel was practically instantaneous: in cars "magnetically levitated through vacuum tunnels." No animal food was eaten. The life span was prolonged to the limits of usefulness-then the worn-out person was "removed." Population was static, births controlled, hygiene enforced...
...musician and poet (in deadly privacy he applied himself to the forms of the sonnet and the villanelle and practiced cadenzas on a flute) but unfortunately nature had made him a detective and, as he once told me, with that quirkish smile of his, 'Not even my duties as Police Commissioner shall keep me from the business of solving crimes...