Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruin coach said yesterday that "Harvard will have to score three touchdowns to beat us". Well, that does not seem too improbable, Mr. McLaughry...
...Horner invited him to run for the State Senate in the partly Negro and ordinarily Republican University district. As a politician Philosopher Smith proved no flash in the pan. Although he had repudiated Chicago's Kelly-Nash machine and alienated Sponsor Horner by his independence, this year he beat the machine candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congressman-at-Large...
...Washington, New Deal Senator Homer T. Bone, despite some ballot-crossing by "Pro-American" Republicans, easily beat Otto A. Case, a Townsend Planner. Republican Ewing D. Colvin, Seattle attorney, was selected to try to crunch Mr. Bone...
...been killed by Wednesday night and savage acts were verified. Citizens of Habersberg gave eyewitness testimony that on Tuesday fully-armed Sudeten Nazis had besieged the local commandant and his gendarmes for three hours. When the commandant surrendered and emerged, they said, Nazis closed in around him, beat and kicked the commandant to death...
...Neills, with their excitement on payday, when they know they will get meat for supper, and their painful struggle to keep up some outward respectability in a world where they cannot pay their bills or get credit. And although the characters fight, insult each other, get drunk, beat the children, curse the Jews and the neighbors, they also make desperate efforts to get along better, to be patient and keep sober, so that their explosions seem pathetic rather than vicious...