Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...second bad break was an injury to Ray Jenkins, a 6-foot 2-inch Sophomore who was the best of the Freshmen last year. Jenkins also plays football and is a great pitcher. But he broke his left arm in the football game with Columbia last fall and probably will not be available for basketball duty until the beginning of February, if at all. His loss has been a heavy blow. Cornell had counted on him to be its chief reserve, even if he did not win a starting position, which he very well may have done...
...feet in height and it is a smart team, skilled in ball handling and fast. To date it has been used in two formations. Gullion has started his "small" quintet, including Vaughan and Bennett, forwards; Ramsey, center; and Jolly and Resnick or Jack, guards; or he has used his "fall" team, Bennett and Ramsey, forwards; Dunbar, center, and Jolly and Vaughan, guards. He has used them depending on the quality and size of the opposition...
Early last fall, the History I staff declared that "canned" answers are easily detected in an examination answer, and termed the use of tutoring notes "mere memorization of material which produces no original thought and seriously affects the grades of their users...
...Franklin Roosevelt last week gave the nod to faithful Mr. Edison. Democratic politicos in New Jersey (including, of all people, Jersey City Boss Frank Hague) have put New Dealish Charlie Edison up for Governor. Lately they have told the President in no uncertain terms that as a candidate next fall Mr. Edison would be sadly handicapped if he were passed over in his own department. The President heeded, last week announced that the son of late, great Thomas Alva Edison will be the 45th Secretary of the Navy. The wise in Washington did not waste much time and breath...
...into this war under two false assumptions: 1) that the western democracies are too decadent and spiritless to defend themselves no matter what humiliations and demands will be put to them; and 2) that the British Empire is already in a greatly advanced stage of disintegration and ready to fall apart with the first real demand made upon its unity...