Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittman believed that the mere question of repeal of the arms embargo was but a minor phase of the problem of national security. But as a practical man he knew how thunderous a drum-roll his Isolationist foes could beat up over that single issue. He set himself to smash their drumheads, roll the drum himself...
...times Kelly had tried for national commander of the Legion, twice getting as far as the nomination. The "kingmakers," who run Legion politics, opposed him. Stephen F. Chadwick beat him last year. But this time Kelly...
Crimson Varsity runners beat the Boston University track team in the three and one-half mile cross country race by eight points at Nickerson Field yesterday afternoon. I go of the opposing team came in first in 18:56 min. followed by C. Langdon Burwell '40 of Harvard who finished in 19 min. flat...
This next year it seems inevitable that the crew to beat will be Yale, who returns to the water with six veterans from last year captained by Bucky Byers their dynamic coxswain. They may have seven lettermen by spring if Fargo is scholastically eligible...
...refers to himself in the third person. His entrance into a Harlem hotspot is nothing short of imperial. "The Lion is here," is his simple greeting, and it gets plenty of respectful attention. For Willie may not be the greatest piano player on earth, but he is hard to beat between 110th Street and the Yankee Stadium...