Word: clan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three University soccer teams will play this afternoon. The University squad meets Springfield College in what promises to be a much more difficult encounter than that of last week. The Seconds and the Freshmen will open their seasons, the former against the Clan Lindsay team, and the latter against Tabor Academy...
...captain of the second University team. Beals has played fullback on the seconds for two seasons, and before transferring to Harvard became acquainted with the game at the University of New Hampshire. The Seconds will also have their first encounter of the season on Saturday, when they meet the Clan Lindsay team...
...Abyssinian slaves, beggars and poor cousins of Mohammed leaked it out that his vigils were to confer with the angel Gabriel, who was repeatedly confiding that of the sundry gods then worshiped in Arabia, Allah was the only god and he, Mohammed, was His rasul (prophet). The powerful Koreish clan in Mecca scowled. Mohammed's friends, now dubbed Moslems (traitors) found it best to keep his revelations secret. It was four years before their number was great enough for him to broach his mission openly in Mecca...
...some who grew to 18-and 20-foot lengths developed rounded bills, like a giant duck's, to fill their monstrous wrinkled paunches. Certain species, having laid in arsenals of teeth, were meateaters and not in the least squeamish about devouring their peaceful relatives. In time, one sensible clan specialized in defense, going always on all fours, with armor plate on a humpy back and a flange of skull spread back fanwise to protect the neck. On the forehead grew three horns; the upper lip hardened and hooked downward in a terrible beak...
Showing documentary evidence in the Outlook, Dr. Barton indicated that the Cardinal had meant no harm, that he had merely confused two Abrahams of the Lincoln clan, two first cousins...