Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...send the bill back to committee, and so many infuriated Southerners joined the revolt that for a moment the bill seemed likely to be scrapped. After the motion to recount had carried on the first count, the leaders were barely able to collect enough votes from the cloakrooms to beat it on a roll call, 206-to-197. A moment later the House, settling back into something nearer its accustomed docility, passed the bill, complete with Boileau amendment...
...named Eugene George Weidmann. Eugene George Weidmann was discovered living at St. Cloud under the name of Siegfried Sauerbrey. Inspectors Poignant and Bourguin of the Paris police dropped in on him. Before they were halfway through the doorway Weidmann whipped out a pistol, wounded them both. Plunging ahead, they beat him into submission...
Since the late Brooks Bowman wrote the nationally successful East of the Sun, Triangle songsmiths have had a hard song to beat. Fol-De-Rol is at least full of very good ones, complete with new-fangled long coda endings. When Your Heart's on Fire, by Dixon Morgan and C. E. Davis, seems particularly tuneful, and the ballet music has real distinction...
...athlete who competes against Yale and whose performance may alter the outcome receives a letter or numerals. Cross country should certainly be brought up to date. An elastic policy should be followed in making awards. In addition to the five point winners any of the Harvard second quintet to beat a member of the first Yale five deserves a letter...
...record that Sprouse aims to beat was spotty. The team lost most of its meets, though it made great strides as the season progressed. With seven lettermen back, Coach Peroy will have a solid foundation on which to build an improved team...