Word: neutralities
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...unpopular side of any given question. Their purpose is clear enough. A customary treatment of Stevenson, for instance, would startle no one. The only thing to do is to reverse the point of view, whitewash villains and smear angels with lamp-black until all are reduced to neutral gray...
...next few years, the games word played in Boston, New Haven and New York; then, in 1889, Springfield was made the authorized battle ground and the two colleges journeyed out along the post road to meet each other half way on neutral territory. Football was finally beginning to take on a modern aspect with a genuine differentiation between backfield and line. Scouting was not yet a business and sometimes chose picturesque methods. Some enterprising Yale men were wont to observe Harvard's secret practice on Soldiers Field from the Mount Auburn Cemetery tower, until Major Henry Lee Higginson was apprised...
...bridge, the phantom forms of John Harvard and Eli Yale stalk through their midst, arm in arm, returning to Cambridge after many historic conflicts on the football field. They have met many times before, and in many different situations: in Hamilton Park, New Haven, for the first time, on neutral ground at Spring-field, in Boston baseball parks, in New York, and for years now, alternately in the Bowl and the Stadium. Theirs is the longest football tradition in the country. Between them, they have fathered that ungainly child, the modern game of football. Every year, before thousands of alumni...
...France, were trying with the help of their neighbors to covenant a lasting peace. And a treaty was born at Locarno, a treaty which may mean the salvation of Western Europe. For Germany and France have at last created a land barrier between them which is to remain forever neutral soil, and in the contingency that either of them crosses this zone for the purpose of making war, Italy and England have agreed to come to the aid of the other. The document further pledges both nations to submit to arbitration all issues which at any time arise between them...
...Board with Dean Pound will sit Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, the representative of Great Britain, and Dr. Nearincx of Belgium, the neutral member. Under the treaty terms of 1912 the Board decides disputes between this country and Great Britain concerning matters of a pecuniary nature...