Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conn., June 10--In the face of a driving rainstorm Saturday afternoon, Coach Brown's heavy Crimson crew started out from the New London Bridge with ten racing strokes on the first official time trial of the season over the four mile course...
...white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn the sport as the essence of manhood and beauty...
Financier James B. Brown of Kentucky...
Second, the Japanese Government is resolved that the Chinese Civil War shall not spread still further northward from Peking into Manchuria, now teeming with little brown colonists from the neighboring Islands of Japan. Therefore the Japanese General Staff, although exceedingly friendly to Chang Tso-lin, recently gave warning (TIME, May 28) that neither he nor any other Chinese would be permitted to enter Manchuria for purposes of active warfare...
...FORTUNATE WAYFARER-E. Phillips Oppenheim-Little Brown...