Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JUNIOR UNIVERSITY Chanler, No.1 No. 1, Vanderlip Cooke, No. 2 No. 2, Nichols Rowe, back back, Glynn...
...hunting, has barren ground for her seed in Mosca and Volpone, but her acting lifts when she finds Carbaccio more amorously accessible. Philip Leigh, the Vulture, managed his voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney. Albert Van Dekker, in the part of Leone, Captain of the Fleet, spares nothing of himself to support alone in the play the whole truth of virtue outraged. His acting grew in strength...
...Liberty cut air funnels toward San Juan, Porto Rico. From that point a tangential trip was made to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Governor Waldo E. Evans played host. Bewailed was the lack of famed Virgin Island rum, but St. Thomas is U. S. territory. Back in San Juan, Publisher Patterson and Daughter Alicia paid a call on Governor Horace M. Towner, who still hears hurricanes in his ears. During the following evening some gasoline floating on the harbour water exploded. Engineer Sutter was blown off the nose of the Liberty. Radioman Roe came hurtling out of the cabin...
...catch the lumbering centre until they reached the four-yard line. He tried to tell Riegels what had happened but though he shouted the words into his ear, Riegels could not hear him in the roar of the crowd. Lorn grabbed his shoulder and pointed back up the field. On the two-yard line, two Georgia Tech tacklers knocked Riegels across his own goal-line but the referee put the ball six inches ahead of it. On the next play Tech scored a safety, two points, and soon afterwards Roy Riegels ran off the field to the players' bench...
Running up a winning lead in the last five minutes of play, the M. I. T. basketball team turned back the University quintet by a 29 to 23 score on Saturday night. This defeat, the first for the Crimson five this season, marked the first Tech victory over Harvard in five years...