Word: duel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile run will most likely be a duel between Langley of Dartmouth and Martin of Cornell with R. P. Wesley '33 and J. W. Fobes '32 coming close to the leaders. Martin is slated to win the event. David Cobb '31 is entered to run against Ranney, captain-elect of the Cornell cross country team, and will have great difficulty in beating him. The latter has covered the distance...
...freshman events will consist of a 50-yard dash and a one-mile relay. A. C. Pescosolido '34 should win the dash with Pyewell of Dartmouth a possible second. The first year relay may turn into a duel between Cornell and Harvard as the former is expected to enter one of its best freshman relay teams in years: The Crimson first year relay has shown good from in the past and defeated the Dartmouth 1934 team last Saturday...
...duel between Holy Cross and Harvard in the one-mile relay has been a keenly contested event for several years. The Crusaders have had the habit of winning the contest but Coach Farrell is optimistic over the outcome this year if Munroe's foot is completely in shape. The others of the quartet in addition to Captain Munroe will be N. P. Dodge. Jr. '33, H. F. Kollmyer '33, E. E. Record...
...desire certified copies of auditors' reports, I have them. You may peruse them and weep. Your statement that the destruction of my wrecked "web" brought down several Boston trust companies is perfidious. Under any other form of government, it would call for a challenge to a duel. For this time, I shall refrain from perforating your hide on condition that you make public amend by printing this letter verbatim...
...Royalist intrigue. With the expert, knowledge of character proper to so eminent a confidence-man, Burr turns the intrigue to his own use. He makes love to the only woman in the conspiracy (Jessie Royce Landis) and steals the fine clothes of the richest conspirator. He fights a duel with a young Yankee in which, reversing the role he played in his affair with Alexander Hamilton, he fires into the air. He postures elegantly, makes desperately winning speeches, executes paltry and artful stratagems, yet remains dull - a character falling halfway between life and fantasy. In spite and perhaps because...