Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exeter has been selected as the scene of the Harvard-Bates debate so that interest in debating may be revived in the various preparatory schools in the vicinity. The question for the oratorical clash between the Crimson and Bates has not yet been definitely settled. Negotiations are now pending and it is expected that the debaters will argue on the same subject as that of the Leland Stanford debate...
...first clash between the Government attorneys and the defense came when Mr. Roberts asked that the twelve jurors be kept under guard during the entire time of the trial. Said he: "We make this motion because of the tremendous importance of the case . . . and because it is first a charge of improper use of money, which amounts to bribery . . . and that no carping criticism and no breath of suspicion can be said, rightly or wrongly, to have interfered with the proper functioning of the machinery of justice in this case...
...second major clash in the trial came when the defense objected to the use of the Senate records as evidence. If this protest had been granted, the Government's case against Messrs. Fall and Doheny would have been ripped into vague shreds. The testimony of Mr. Doheny, before Senator Walsh's investigating committee, that he had "loaned" Mr. Fall $100,000 would have been of no use to the prosecution, and the two years' labors of the Senate would have been legally fruitless. Judge Hoehling announced, after four days' consideration, that the defense's objection...
When the University racquet-men meet the Harvard Club group in Boston this afternoon, the lid comes off the squash season. At the same time, team B. will travel to Newton Center to play the local team, and the first-year outfit will clash with the Newton Center Team C aggregation...
...Harvard Club, which finished third last year, is expected to put the first team men to a severe test. The feature match of the afternoon will be the 4 o'clock clash between Captain H. N. Rawlins '27, who figured heavily in the successes of last year, and P. E. Callanan...