Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special, emergency war-zone courts which could pass any sentence, including death. Sir John Anderson's Emergency Powers Act was already excuse for the Silent-Column arrests and trials. Wrote the News Chronicle: "Begging your pardon, Sir John, we would remind you that you are no longer in Bengal. ... No doubt the purpose of recent proceedings under your order is to improve morale. . . . The morale of the British people needs no improvement...
Coach Bill Clarke of Princeton will decide at game time between Fred Rowe and Dan Carmichael, both Seniors, for the pitching role. They shared the hurling in the first Bengal game that ended in defeat for the Orange and Black. The outfield will include Bill MacCoy, sensational Sophomores hitter, who is bating in the clean-up position, and Norm Crosby, former Exeter star. Senior Brooks Jones, who is slugging the ball at a lively pace, will do the catching...
...this took place while the Mahatma toured Bengal, home province of fiery Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian Leftist leader whom the Mahatma ousted last year as president of the Indian National Congress Party. The Leftists, who think that now is the ideal time to snatch Indian independence away from war-beset Great Britain, have accused the Mahatma of too much dickering and stalling with the British...
Harry Turner, Bengal left wing, scored the goal which clinched the Tiger victory, with only 55 seconds remaining in the game. The Crimson's lone tally came in the opening minutes of the last stanza when Captain Bill Coleman took Skip Ervin's pass and slipped it into the net after a pile up around the Princeton goal, trying the game...
Right wing Warren Winslow gave the Tiger sextet the scare of its life several times on solo dashes down the ice through the whole Bengal team, but to no avail. The Crimson almost scored another marker at the close of the second period when a low puck bounced off Dave Eaton's chest almost into...