Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...production and even goes so far as to deplore President Hoover's campaign to reduce varieties of pipe fitting from 17,000 to 610. Perhaps this reviewer is biased, but an intimate acquaintance with a summer water supply dependent upon the cooperation of a Michigan-made pump and the usual New Hampshire assortment of pipe fittings makes him side definitely with the administration on this point...
Uneventful except for the usual bridge and poker games, the trip so far has run as smoothly as would be expected with Harvard's far famed management in charge. Only one cloud hangs over the scene, Eddie Farrell, Harvard's veteran track coach and trainer of the football squad, having been forced to stay behind with what looked very much like incipient appendicitis...
Hitherto Professor Rogers has been wont to fortify his thesis by evoking the sanction of tradition. But if in his latest pronunciamento he is parting company with the peripatetic, probably he is just showing his usual contempt for pedestrianism...
...Harvard Freshman soccer team lost to Worcester Academy by the score of three goals to nothing Saturday afternoon on the field behind the Business School. The schoolboys outplayed their opponents in every department of the game. The yearlings lacked their usual pep, and were unable either to pass accurately, or to prevent the concerted rushes of their rivals. The Academy team had an excellent defense, stopping numerous 1933 attacks...
...regular running formation is an unbalanced line, usually leaving only one man on the short side, with the quarterback back in receiving position. On practically every play he actually receives the ball, though on a great many he does not rush. One of the favorite plays from this position found one of the interfering halfbacks receiving the ball from the quarterback on a simple crossbuck and diving into the strong side of the line. The play wasn't as a rule very effective against Dartmouth but it affords a contrast to the usual straight run and might be a real...