Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snitch a few ears of corn for a "roast." As they crept through the tall corn rows a gun was fired close by. Johnny Kolesar, riddled with shot, died that evening. The two Klementoviches were also struck. Johnny's sister identified Craig Hoffman as "the man in the brown pants" who fired the shot. Hoffman was hustled off to jail, held without bail...
Watching wave follow wave of infantry, machine gun and artillery units in a mimic motorized attack, the maneuvers' distinguished guests, including Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams in a brown and battered Harvard hat, knew that few soldiers would walk to the next...
Well, I'd lay my money on Harvard today, and I guess that ought to be enough of a hint for most every one. A couple of touchdowns ought to be the margin. And then: Yale 13 Brown 6 Dartmouth 19 Columbia 6 Florida 7 Georgia Tech 0 Princeton 13 Cornell 13 California 13 Penn 7 Fordham 21 Holy Cross...
...Civil War caused an upheaval at West Point. Divergent views and opinions from all parts of our country were expressed and strongly supported by members of the Corps. The intense feeling aroused by John Brown's raid resulted in a number of serious fights, and, although the authorities did not relax the customary discipline, cadets agitated by State feeling cared little for punishment or demerits received,. Seceding Southern States took with them their sons who, once loyal Unionists were soon to tear at the throats of their Northern Classmates. The names of Grant, Jackson, Stuart, and Lee will live long...
Detraining, the cadets will form and march from the railroad station to Boston Common for the review by Gov. Allen, Maj.-Gen. Preston Brown, Maj.-Gen. Smith, superintendent of West Point; Mayor Nichols and Mayor Quinn of Cambridge. The column will proceed along Huntington Avenue to Dartmouth Street, to Beacon Street, and thence to the Common, entering at the Charles Street-Beacon Street gate...