Word: duels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duel to the death with swords ensued upon a nameless sward: Captain Fonseca was wounded...
...predictions run true, the game should resolve itself into a pitchers duel, as did the first contest, between two of the most formidable college twirlers of the East. Pond, twice conqueror of the University last year, will attempt to avenge the 1 to 0 defeat at the hands of Caldwell, the Tiger ace. Though defeated, Pond outpitched Caldwell in their first meeting and Eli adherents bank upon him heavily today...
...recent French Presidential election reminds one of Mark Twain's famous and often quoted French duel, in which the vanquished gentleman exclaimed with such exquisite pathos. "I die I die that France may live!" With a premonition of what was to befall. M. Painleve remarked on Thursday. "Personalities are nothing. It is the Republic alone that matters." One regrets that such beautiful unselfishness is not always displayed in domestic polities...
...comparison of scores is interesting not only in the light that it throws on today's encounter, but also because of the Yale series. A 2 to 1 score marked the triumph of the Elis recently in a pitchers' duel. If the Green should win this afternoon, the entire aspect of the Yale series will be affected...
...French expedition under Major Marchand declined to obey Lord Kitchener's demand to withdraw from Fashoda on the River Nile. The two forces glared at each other for days, while a heated diplomatic duel was fought between Paris and London. Finally, French Minister Delcasse gave way; war was narrowly averted; France agreed to recognize that "the whole Nile really lies within the British sphere of influence...