Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lubradovitch and Bachus found it easy to deceive Bezi and Leppig, while the Wisconsin backfield performed sleight of hand behind them and beat Notre Dame, to the extensive surprise of all sports experts, by a score...
Vincent Richards, famed professional tennis player, in the finals of the U. S. Professional Championship, beat Karel Kozeluh, probably the greatest tennis player in the world, who has not lost a match for eight years. The score was 8-6, 6-3, 0-6, 6-2. Kozeluh took his shoes off after the second set and played in his stocking feet...
Fordham, cracked up to have prospects of a season without defeat, beat St. Bonaventure, 27-0. Many strong teams bullied little opponents into quick submission; Cornell scattered Clarkson Tech.; West Point drilled Boston University, Colgate smeared St. Lawrence, Dartmouth scuttled Norwich, Amherst gobbled Middlebury, Notre Dame routed Loyola, Pennsylvania clawed Ursinus, California smashed Santa Clara U., Penn State walked through Lebanon Valley...
Collett is a gallery player; she gets distance from the tees and sometimes throws it away with her putter; she walks along as though she were singing to herself; like Bobby Jones, her grim determination frightens her opponents and beats them before the match begins. As Bobby Jones beat Perkins 13 up in the Amateur at Braeburn, Collett beat stocky little Van Wie 13 and 12 in the Amateur at Hot Springs...
...avoid castration. The hero is the son, born in early wedlock, of the Grand Eunuch. Not wishing to be his father's successor, he flees the royal city in company with his wife, Chee-Chee. On the road, they are beset by Tartars, monks and brigands who beat the hero and take Chee-Chee off-stage for purposes which can be guessed. Finally the Grand Eunuch catches up with his son and prepares to have him fitted for high office; but a friend of Chee-Chee, Li-Li-Wee, persuades her husband to kidnap and impersonate the surgeon...