Word: dueling
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...first consists of the First National Bank (Air. Baker) and allied interests (J. P. Morgan & Co.), the N. Y. Central and the Nickel Plate crowd; the second, of the Pennsylvania, Delaware & Hudson, Wabash and affiliated interests, including Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Thus it is within the possibilities that another duel between J. P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. may be already brewing...
...game on Saturday which the Crimson baseball team took from Amherst, 9 to 1. A drizzling downfall during the first few innings gave way to perfect baseball weather, and the slugfest which the game had promised to become was at the same time switched to a pitchers' duel of sorts...
...Pedro, passengers on the liner Moerdyk beheld a duel between a huge octopus and a man-eating shark. For nearly an hour, the two writhed together, the shark snapping, plunging, the octopus limaceously twining. At length the octopus thrust a tentacle down the throat of the maneater, at which the latter, vomiting buckets of entrails, expired...
...supported by a greatly changed line-up for Team A. Captain Hammond was absent from his post at second and several of the Team A fielders were out for the afternoon. Except for the pitchers' duel the game was not particularly fast and was marred by several errors. The only score came in the fifth inning when Zarakov, who had worked to third by Slayton's error and hits by Howard and Hoffman took home on a passed ball...
...wounded. Seven more times she fired; seven more wounds were inflicted. The enraged beast turned and charged. Airs. Green went down, was trampled to death. Properly speaking, no odium could be attached to the great beast. He had been sought out for slaughter. He had been invited to a duel to the death. According to his lights and the law of the jungle, he had done well. Even according to the law of civilization, his was a justifiable homicide, committed in self-defence...