Word: surprisingness
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Twenty-five years ago-on July 19, 1902, to be exact-nine men representing New York City and being called the "Giants" were playing baseball against Philadelphia. Most of them had sonorous Irish names-Brodie, Bresnahan, McGinnity, McGann, McGraw. They lost the game, 5 to 3. But the crowd of...
Stanford and Southern California lived up to expectations leading the field in the number of men qualified, the former with 14 and the latter with 10. Although Stanford enters today's competition still a heavy favorite to carry off championship honors, the most surprising upset of the first day occurred...
I find your reporting of events often exasperating as well as surprising in a paper which professes to aim at brevity. You reach the meat of an item by the most circuitous route. The reporter seems to have taken a course in the Circumlocution Office.
The long awaited report of the Dartmouth Athletic Council on the football proposals referred to it by President Hopkins last winter is surprising both in the clear and concise manner of its statement and the general favor which it accords to the primary aims of the Dartmouth head. True it...
"Long ago producers on the stage realized the value of college men and it is not surprising that the moving picture directors are now turning to the colleges for material. Although it seems to be comparatively easy for the "movies" to recruit its actresses, the men do not seem to...