Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry Greb, world's middleweight champion, is known as "The Pittsburgh Windmill." Against him in the Detroit Arena tilted a young Quixote, one Sage. Bravely the youth attacked. Idly, effortlessly, swung the arms of Greb, click-clack, like flails that spin in the wind. Sage, well-schooled in the naked tourney of this latterday, postured, lunged, but when he set himself to avoid one swinging flail, another descended unseen, caught him unchivalrous buffets. For twelve rounds, though out-pointed in every one, he kept returning to the hopeless encounter...
...Mead '87, Comptroller of the University, left Cambridge last night for a tour to several prominent Harvard Clubs, which are holding their annual dinners this week. Tonight he will speak before the members of the Harvard Club of Detroit, tomorrow evening he will speak to the alumni at Cleveland, and on Saturday evening he will address the Harvard Club of Pittsburg...
Examining the Nation's press, last week, readers found among the news- papers publishing crossword puzzles: The Washington Post, The Atlanta Constitution, The Kansas City Star, The Detroit Free Press, The Omaha Bee, The Chicago Tribune, The Buffalo Evening News, The Cleveland Press, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Philadelphia Ledger, The Minneapolis Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Transcript and nine Manhattan dailies...
Charles R. Brown, New Haven S. Parkes Cadman, Brooklyn Henry Sloane Coffin, Manhattan Russell H. Conwell. Philadelphia Harry Emmerson Fosdick, Manhattan Charles W". Gilkey, Chicago George A. Gordon, Boston Newell D. Hillis, Brooklyn Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, Maiden, Mass. Lynn H. Hough, Detroit Charles E. Jefferson, Manhattan Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Pittsburgh Bishop Wm. F. McDowell, Washington, D. C. Mark A. Matthews, Seattle William P. Merrill, Manhattan G. Campbell Morgan, London, Eng., at present in Manhattan Joseph F. Newton, Manhattan Merton S. Rice, Detroit Frederick F. Shannon, Chicago Robert E. Speer, Manhattan John T. Stone, Chicago William A. Sunday, Winona...
...Vance of Detroit, President of the Executive Committee of the Board of Foreign Missions, rose up and declared that only five of a group of 150 Bolsheviks deported by the U. S. had received in this country "anything but kicks and cuffs. . . . That is what some of our workers found. These needy lives press us in the crowds, but no virtue goes out from us to them, as it did from Jesus to a timid, suffering woman years ago. . . . How many we have sent away, as we did Trotzky, raging against established government and distrustful of everything Christian, God only...