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...contrast. Harvard is 1-4, with only 7-5 win over M.I.T. to brag about. to midfielders Dexter Newton and Marry Van Oudenallen have hurt the at its thinnest position. Capitain Gates was hurt in the M.I.T. game. Though veterans Dick Ames and Ted have been impressive, the attack has been inconsistent; the seven goals against M.I.T. were the most the Crimson a scored this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Opposes Red-Hot Red and Blue | 4/17/1965 | See Source »

...insistently recalled from the front by Prime Minister Clémenceau, M. Le Capitain Tardieu was sent to the U. S. as French High Commissioner. The appointment was almost a scandal. Le Capitain had never before held even ministerial rank. But he justified the "Tiger's" confidence. In the U. S. he borrowed and spent three and a half billion dollars on munitions for France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tardieu Cabinet | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...hate, would gain, we feel, from a simpler and more direct treatment. The effort to suggest the vortex of sensations in the hero's mind, sustained as this effort is from beginning to end, cannot help straining at points. Highly effective in such scenes as the combat at "El Capitain", it often makes mystery where we do not feel that mystery should exist. Each detall, each motion of the characters, has been carefully planned and visualized, but these details and motions are thrown into the realm of crude sensation or ill-defined symbol for the sake of intensity. The reader...

Author: By Theodore Morrison, | Title: ADVOCATE DROPS SCHOOL FOR LITERARY MATTERS | 5/29/1924 | See Source »

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