Word: deadlocker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton finally broke the deadlock in 1921. After three scoreless periods, Owen kicked a goal that gave the Crimson the lead, but shortly afterwards Gilroy of Princeton caught a short forward pass and raced 65 yards for a touchdown. Keck added a field real to make the final figures...
After that Ralston had few ambitions. He virtually turned down a nomination for President last year, as the deadlock between McAdoo and Smith broke up in the Democratic Convention. He ordered his name withdrawn as votes began to pile...
...debate will be the third held in Boston between Oxford and Harvard. In 1922 Harvard was adjudged triumphant by the audience, and the following year Oxford won by a large majority. The debate on October 16 will break the deadlock. Following the English custom, there will be no formal judges of the debate, but the audience will vote to decide the winner...
...formal negotiations were broken off a fortnight ago in a deadlock. Last week even informal negotiations between the high contracting parties were dropped; John L. Lewis, leader of the miners, wrote to Samuel D. Warriner, leader of the operators, saying that he did not want to exchange any more opinions unless the operators were willing to abandon their position...
...manfully that it wants no strike. The miners insist that the operators are trying to increase their profits and will not listen to reason. The operators offer repeatedly to arbitrate, which the miners will not do, saying that arbitration has cost them too much in former years. So the deadlock persists...