Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sets 8-6, while Pfaffmann managed to win the first set of his match with Wheeler and then dropped the next two. The doubles between these four first men was perhaps the best match of the afternoon. Having lost the initial set, the University tennis players staged a spectacular comeback and won the second in eight games. Their winning streak, however, broke as Davies and Briggs won the last...
...Harvard players, Cummings and Harrington, were able to make quick work of their opponents. In his match Dixon started, out with a 6-1 victory, but lost the second set. For a few games in the third it looked as if he might even the score, but a smashing comeback by Kong robbed him of his victory...
...three out of four games. E. M. Upjohn played beautifully and allowed his opponent an average of only five points per game in the three games of his match. Both F. I. Carpenter Jr. and R. S. Wright were victorious in close matches, the latter staging a brilliant comeback after being two games down to Ralph...
...Bowl with a strong eleven which proceeded to cross the Blue goal line twice before the first period had ended. Yale was dumbfounded. Soon, however, the visitors' attack began to break and the Bulldog eleven awoke to the task before it. in the second half, showing another great comeback as decisive as the one against the Army. Yale launched her offensive and ultimately won 16 to 14. But the Blue defense throughout the game was weak and Tad Jones therefore spent the next week in strengthening it before the Tizer encounter...
...separate bookplates for the children. Aunt Hepzibah, Grandmother (something nice and quiet for Grandmother), Cousin Ed (crossed flasks over a copy of The Sheik would really be best for Cousin Ed) - all join in the merry throng. Bookplates solve your Christmas present list for a year with only one comeback - the bookplate full of Greek statuary you sent by mistake to the friends who believe that Art should be draped. Then you begin comparing notes with others on their bookplates - collecting bookplates, even - and you are in the toils of a mania as rabid as that of the first edition...