Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale turned its back on seven lean football years and dragged Harvard through three inches of Cambridge mud to a 13-0 defeat. Blinding rain fell. There were 26 fumbles and only two first downs. Both teams punted ceaselessly, seeking breaks of luck. Yale scored when " Duck" Pond picked up a fumble and ran 67 yards for a touchdown, when Captain Mailory kicked two goals from placement. The victory carries with it the so-called "Big Three" (Eastern) championship...
...Frank Kellogg, 66 years old, " frail in figure and nervous in demeanor," was Senator from Minnesota for the term 1917-1923. Last Spring he retired involuntarily, having been defeated for reelection by Hendrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite. He became a lame duck by a margin of more than 80,000 votes...
...Nations question and in favor of Mr. Harding's World Court proposal. He knew President Harding intimately, in fact, was a member of the "golf cabinet." Mr. Kellogg held a post in the Foreign Relations Committee, and is an expert on international law. After he became a lame duck, he declared that he was " not a candidate for any appointment, didn't want any job and would not accept...
Immediately thereupon arose an interesting legal point. The old law, still on the statute books, commands that any person so convicted be ducked forth-with upon the town ducking stool. Unfortunately for a strict observance of the letter of the mandate, however, all Phillipsburg's ducking stools were either in museums, which refused to give them up, or else had long since been smashed into kindling wood to light Phillipsburg fires of a winter morning. The Judge was in a quandary. The law commanded him in unmistakable terms to have the malefactress ducked; on the other hand, even a judge...
Meanwhile the CRIMSON is inclined to join in the amusement with which Mr. Duck and Mr. Leonard view the activities and purpose of the Klan. As was predicted Harvard has laughed at its Klan. But at the same time it is hard to disagree with the conclusion of the New York Times that it is cause for serious reflection "that even one of the young men. . . should have been led astray by such vicious, and absurd arguments as the Ku Klux Klan has been presenting to them...