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Technique. The fronton is a three-walled court about two-thirds as long as a football field. As in all court games, a player scores a point by acing his opponent or making him fault. Winning score varies from 6 (elimination singles) to 30 (elimination doubles). In elimination singles matches, two players start; when one loses a point he sits down and does not get on the court again until his turn comes. Bets are made on teams, on separate matches, on the length of time one player will hold the court. In a doubles match the players move...
...examinations draw nearer, there comes the usual hectic period of feverish study in the small hours with the aid of large quantities of coffee and cigarettes, and despite ardent, resolutions to the contrary this situation seems to be practically unavoidable. Nor can it be said that the fault lies wholly in the weakness of the resolve...
...careful consideration of the divisional examinations, the haste with which the Bible and Shakespeare examinations follow the midyears must stand out as an unnecessary and remediable fault. Less than ten days after the last midyear examination Juniors concentrating in History and Literature must undergo a test in two subjects which they have had to put out of mind for a considerable period. The nearness of these divisional to the midyears is in disregard of the understandable feeling of fatigue which comes after trial...
...delay is entirely our fault," said he enigmatically, "not his." What "Uncle Arthur" meant, what every M. P. and most well-informed Londoners knew, was that the delay was really the fault of His Majesty the King-Emperor. Stubbornly, and to the huge embarrassment of his Labor Government, George V refused to shake the hand of any representative of Soviet Russia, for it was the Soviet Government which decreed the assassination in 1918 of a brown-bearded, nervous little man known to the world as His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Tsar of All the Russias, known still to George...
...value as good theatre to carry them over. As theatre they go over, but what gave promise of being a problem play that would not soon be outdated by the quick solution of the problem in the world outside the theatre, turns into a rather good melodrama whose prime fault is that its personal basis in the second and third acts seems woefully insignificant after its cosmic one in the first...