Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...University twelve has had a successful season this year. Although the Southern trip proved rather unfortunate from the point of view of victories, nevertheless the men came up against older and more experienced players and thus were able to profit in later games. Among the notable victories of the year were the ones over Penn State and Yale. Both these teams are among the first ranking teams of the country...
...fine points of the game and watch over the training and physical condition of the adepts. Tennis seems to be the most "amateur" of our sports; training depends entirely upon the individual undergraduates who participate; the team is selected by an undergraduate captain; and younger players are forced to profit as best they may be undergraduate coaching...
Even at a time when high prices throughout the country are tumbling, the profit-slicing which has been going on in Kansas City during the past few days is sensational enough to provoke consideration. Within an incredibly brief space of time the retail values attached to all articles of wearing apparel and shoes have been reduced by amounts equalling in many cases sixty percent. The sudden violence of the movement in this single district is sufficient to cause one to look beyond general conditions for an explanation...
...Borah Resolution for the investigation of campaign expenditures may serve the purpose of curbing somewhat any gentlemen seeking the Presidency who fail to profit by the lesson administered to Senator Newberry--that America is a democracy, not a plutocracy. The danger in a Presidential election that votes will actually be purchased is practically a negligible one; still it is only just that the actual truth about campaign funds should receive as "pitiless publicity" as charges and counter-charges, rumors and denials, have now for some time commanded...
...this hot-headed reaction that must be overcome. Not bigotry, not the exclusion of duly elected socialists, not the rounding up and temporary imprisonment of inoffensive aliens, but freedom of expression and open-mindedness are the methods by which improvements must come. The times are serious; and we should profit by history. There is little cause for our terrified excitement and alarm. The country should cool down...