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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victorious Wafd parliamentarians assembled next day at a luncheon where spirits ran low. All were acutely conscious that the battleship Resolution was steaming toward Port Said from the British naval base at Malta. All knew that British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain had just cabled in especially imperious vein* to the impotent Egyptian government. When Zaghlul Pasha rose, all emotion, the Wafd beheld how Pyrrhic was its victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: High Tea, Low Lunch | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...stead at the start of the seventh. Booth allowed seven hits in as many innings one of them a home run by Guerney, while the other run was also upon his shoulders. Edes scoring from second in the first inning after the Crimson hurler's two base error had allowed him to reach this station. Cutts was in fine shape when he assumed the mound burden in the eighth. His slow ball and his sharply breaking curves were working to perfection, and he had complete control of the situation in the final stages of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOESTRING WIN OVER BROWN EKED OUT BY CRIMSON | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...Crimson batters were unable to hit Quill in the pinches as the 13 Harvard men left on base will testify. He showed signs of weakening in the ninth, however, and was removed in favor of Danzell, ace boxman for the Bruins. In the first game of the Harvard-Brown series, Danzell showed himself weak in fielding bunts, and it was by this method that the home club eked out a win the tenth stanza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOESTRING WIN OVER BROWN EKED OUT BY CRIMSON | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...various departments, the leaders remain almost the same as a week ago. Todd, who formerly held the two base hit lead in conjunction with Sullivan and Barbee has now moved out in front and leads with a total of three. Sullivan reciprocated in the triple division, where he has held the honors jointly with the Crimson leader, and now heads the list with two three-ply blows. The University short stop has also managed to hold his advantage in the number of runs scored and is still at the head of the list with a total of 18. In three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BATTING FIGURE JUMPS 17 POINTS--TODD AND ZARAKOV NOW CHALLENGE BURNS FOR TOP PLACE | 6/11/1926 | See Source »

...retired him in favor of Goeltz in an effort to stave off a run. But Zarakov followed with a neatly placed sacrifice advancing the men to second and third. After Burns was nipped at the plate on Todd's grounder Tobir, who replaced Lord in the lineup at first base in a last minute shift, singled cleanly and Jones scored with the just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Overwhelms Tigers in Deciding Game of Series | 6/10/1926 | See Source »

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