Word: duel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) took on last week the character of a hot and personal duel over a blunt question: "Shall the present voluntary inferiority of the U. S. Navy to the British Navy be perpetuated by a binding treaty?" This question was haggled over in terms of cruisers, last week, because the cruiser is the strongest naval arm which the Parley was called to consider. Because negotiations proceeded wholly in private, last week, it was necessary to piece together from unofficial sources the guiding concepts which each delegation was striving to round...
Eight schoolboys from Kent, Conn. (TIME, Feb. 28), beginning their invasion of England, were pitted against eight veterans of the Thames Rowing Club, in the first heat of the Grand Challenge Cup Race of the Royal Henley Regatta on the Thames last week. It was a magnificent duel. Kent had the weight advantage and youth. The Thames Club had years of experience. Stroke for stroke, the two shells raced over three-quarters of the course. Then Kent nosed ahead. Jack Beresford quickly raised the stroke in the Thames Club boat. By a quarter of a length, the Thames Club...
Before a University of Pennsylvania Alumni Day crowd of 20,000 people, J. N. Barbee '28, Crimson twirling ace, lost a pitching duel to Foster Sanford Jr., enabling the Quaker star to win a 4 to 1 victory for Pennsylvania Saturday afternoon, the latter's second triumph this season over the Crimson. The game substantially strengthen the claim of the Quakers to the mythical Eastern collegiate baseball championship, they having won the Quadrangular league championship last Friday, and having just one more game to play with a record of 19 victories and five defeats...
When the general handshaking was over, President Siles spoke briefly to his brother, Genaro: "It is your duty to challenge Dr. Calvo in my name to a duel. My office prevents me from doing so, but our honor, and the honor of Bolivia must be avenged. ... He turned his back! Challenge...
...Lynn, Mass., one Antonio Gallo and one Rossanio Boleno, aged 60 each, fought a duel with walking sticks in Central Square, applauded by a growing crowd, until interrupted by policemen. Both wore spectacles and needed their sticks in order to walk. A judge fined Mr. Gallo $10, Mr. Boleno...