Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eighteen hundred feet up the Blue Ridge, hard by Snicker's Gap, where Turner Ashby's grey cavalry thundered through to join Jackson in the Valley, stands a fine brick building faced with ten cinctured columns. About are smaller structures, a laboratory, stable, power plant. Once it was an important U. S. weather observatory; but for 15 years it has stood empty in the mountain wind...
...minutes later they glanced at each other, startled. Was that a police gong? Into the curb eased a car, blue and fast, like the Detective Bureau's. Through the office door strode four men. Two, in police uniforms, swung submachine guns. Two, in plain clothes, carried stubby shotguns...
...Alphonsine Morin, across the street, saw two men, hands over head, walk out of the garage, followed by two uniformed policemen with leveled guns. Obviously a raid and an arrest. She watched captors and captives enter the blue car, which flashed down the street, passed a trolley on the wrong side, melted away in traffic...
With the start of the second stanza, Penn attempted to carry the attack but was quickly put on the defensive by a concerted Harvard assault. Five tallies were chalked up, as the Crimson passing attack completely bewildered the Red and Blue defense...
...most redoubtable opponent on the Crimson schedule. The general belief that the Rhode Islanders always turn out good gapplers is substantiated this year by the fact that they have defeated Yale. The match will prove a real test for the Harvard team, which is to meet the Blue on March...