Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Comeback? With Soviet gold, Mongol troops and Russian officers, General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Christian Bolshevist War Lord,'" recently driven from Peking (TIME, April 12) was last week reported preparing a drive from Siberia on his native land. Then quite suddenly the occidental press discovered the General in Berlin. Perhaps he was only buying peanuts...
...evening, Harvard placed second to Yale in the team scores. Although the Harvard team has been considered strong this season, its showing today was unexpectedly good. After the epee team had been eliminated by M. I. T. in the matches yesterday, the foils team staged a great Crimson comeback to win from all its rivals except Yale...
...clear that the second half was to be an exciting session. The Connecticut men took the lead on a goal from the floor by Bitgood, but the count was knotted again at 16 all. Eddy then scored and the Aggies drew ahead 20 to 16. The University staged a comeback and got three baskets in a row. With ten minutes to play, and a lead of two points, the home team attempted a waiting game by retiring to its own part of the floor, and drawing out the enemy defense. Smith scored on two fouls, and then Coombs counted...
Heary Wheezes Stage Comeback...
...large proportion of the wit and humor of the present number was acquired, for, with the possible exception of the story which begins with the two newlyweds in a Pullamn and later contains references to oranges, there is hardly an antique and hoary wheeze which does not stage a comeback somewhere between the "Prologue" and the Tiffany (Exacting Standards) advertisement on the final page. Vide such delicatessen as "Do you own much in Flerida?" and its answer: "Oh, lots and lots," or "She: You look much better without those glasses. He: So do you" and even the whiskered one about...