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...would like to make one of these trips may try out for the University of Pittsburgh debate, which is the next forensic duel to be held In Cambridge, on February 9. There will be a series of tryouts beginning about two weeks before this time. These tryouts present an excellent opportunity for any one who is interested in making the teams to demonstrate his ability and to gain experience at the same time...
Blue Howell, 185 pounds, one of the lightest men on the Nebraska team, was supposed to have been going to a duel with "Red" Cagle, the Army's unkind star. As it turned out, neither he nor Fay Russell, the 205 pound quarterback, who has a wife and ranch of his own, damaged the Army. Nor was Clair Sloan, who has not missed a kick for point after touchdown since the season began, able by himself to win, though he kicked a field goal in the second period and nearly kicked another to tie the score in the third...
Playing under fine weather conditions at New Haven yesterday afternoon, the Eli and Crimson second football teams fought out a ragged line-plunging duel that ended 23 to 12 in favor of the Blue contingent...
...sooty raven of hard luck creaked again, last week, at poor Edouard Herriot. His toboggan from power has been likened to that of David Lloyd George. Both men are time servers, gambling on the turn of the mob. The undoing of M. Herriot began when he dared to duel politically for the Prime Ministry of France (TIME, July 26, 1926), with wily Aristide Briand, who has held that office nine times. When Briand and the mob were done with Edouard Herriot he had been turned out of the Prime Ministry, after an incumbency of two days, and skinned...
...wall, snatches that bride at the altar onto his horse and, as they approach the leap over the ravine, says, "It may mean-Death. . . ." at which she answers, "Death . . . with you. . . ." Spectators lingered in the hope that at some point in this nonsensical fairbanking Mr. Talmadge would fight a duel to death with his double and that they would both...