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Word: duel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr faced each other and raised their pistols in what was to become the most famous duel in American history. On a cool morning in March, 1805, two Harvard undergraduates did essentially the same thing, with the exception that their contest is scarcely remembered--even by Harvard historians...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Harvard Honor | 5/11/1955 | See Source »

...student appeal to arms occurred in March, the faculty was unaware of the event until May. By then alarming rumors were aboard, and the faculty decided to vote on the question, "Is it expedient for this government to institute an inquiry into the foundation of a report of a duel, said to have been fought lately between two students?" The "government" decided that the inquiry would indeed be interesting, if not expedient, and consequently charged its investigators to bring in the facts...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Harvard Honor | 5/11/1955 | See Source »

...some difficulty, and by unknown means, the faculty discovered that on the night of March 22 one Wainwright Foster had been guilty of conduct toward a certain George English which was "insulting and irritating in both words and actions." Foster, who seemed the aggressor, thereafter challenged English to a duel that same evening. As Mr. English was not one to go off half-cocked, he refused to defend his honor that evening, but promised to do so the next morning if Mr. Foster insisted. Foster was very insistent, and seconds were duly appointed--a Mr. Bullard and a Mr. Wallack...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Harvard Honor | 5/11/1955 | See Source »

Back in the days when such petty offenses as yawning in chapel brought students punishment, one could hardly expect the Faculty to look kindly on students' playing with pistols--loaded or not. Although the Harvard duel was a harmless one and actually amusing, the professors and tutors were irate. After "long and painful consideration" they solemnly admonished Foster, English, and the two benign seconds...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Harvard Honor | 5/11/1955 | See Source »

...came a fat saddlebag full of westerns. On Tuesday night a viewer could find hardly anything but six-shooters and cowpunchers. Armstrong Circle Theater proved again that the good guy can always outshoot the bad guy; Danger tried hard to mix comedy with its gun fighting in The Last Duel in Virginia City, while Elgin Hour presented Black Eagle Pass, a homily on the evils of bigamy in the Far West. Paul Douglas got a single-tracked power into his role of the blackmailed and misunderstood bigamist, and the Western setting was apparently justified in the last act when Douglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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