Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held under the auspices of the Union Boat Club, when he plays in the opening round today. Captain G. D. Debevoise '26 and R. S. Wright '26, first two players on the championship University quintet have been ranked along with M. P. Baker '22, present holder of the state crown and Ralph Powers, Canadian champion, as seeded players. They will both swing into action later in the week...
...Maison du Roi on one side, nearly to the Gothic arcade of the Hotel de Ville on the other. Suddenly a sleek cavalcade of motors drew up before the Hotel de Ville. The crowds burst into "La Brabançonne."† Down from his motor stepped 24-year-old Crown Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, and was wildly cheered upon the official termination of his recent tour of Africa...
...inherent in any narrative that sincerely, accurately and with reasonable adequacy portrays the life of a period, however restricted as to time, regardless of the limitation of its area of action. Moreover, Crèvecoeur had a point of view not frequently presented, that of a loyalist to the crown in revolutionary colonies. No reader will close the book, finally, without a truer mental picture of pioneer days in America. Crèvecoeur was not a historian; he was a chronicler of unrelated episodes. He was an observer whose main interest was not in ideas or causes but in people...
Neither the University nor the Princeton team was conceded a chance at the intercollegiate hockey championship when the season opened this fall, but both the local skaters and the Nassau team have shown such improvement since the start of the season, that the hockey crown now depends largely on the outcome of tonight's tussle...
Last Year the Princeton hockeyists, competing for the first year under Coach Ramsey's fuselage, finished at the bottom of the big three ranking. With the former Olympic player's methods being more thoroughly mastered by the Tiger the Princetonian are now threatening for the crown held...