Word: duel
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...when an 8 to 2 victory over the Quantico Marines avenged a grudge of two years standing. That was also the first win of the season since before that the Pioneers of Boston University had captured the opener 5 to 3 and Devens had been shaded in a pitching duel by Wallace of William and Mary...
...personnel of two debating teams which will represent Harvard during the spring recess, of two teams which will engage in a duel debate with Yale, and of the team which will match arguments with Princeton speakers on April 19 was announced last night by Coach E. M. Rowe...
Once he fought a strange duel: he and his opponent hid themselves behind targets on an artillery range, lay there all day under the gunfire. At dusk Gurdjieff, unharmed, rescued his antagonist who was wounded, unconscious. He spent his youth wandering in the East, trying everything once. Say his followers, in the Tibetan mountains he found traces of a forgotten way of life, as old as Pythagoras (532 B. C..); he returned to Europe to teach it to a few. He bought the medieval prieuré at Fontainebleau. turned it into his Institute. Institutees lived simply, worked hard, learned complicated Eastern...
...with the majesty of a beribboned frigate and boggles the English tongue in a way which has become literary legend. Transfixed with astonishment, she cries: "I am putrified!" Then there is Bob Acres, a rustic rival for Lydia's hand whose gentlemanly pretensions nearly involve him in a duel with...
...goalies duel was hardly as spectacular as expected with neither of the two net-defenders turning in as good a game as on the previous Saturday. Ellis made good all his saves, though a bit shaky on some of them, whereas Hawkes thrilled the crowd with some sensational stops but missed others that weren half as hard. Harvard proved the old axiom that a good offense is the best defense by continually forcing play...