Word: duels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trust feature was dropped in favor of a " community of interest " in which John D. was one of 99 stockholders, under a holding company known as the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. This reorganization followed the Sherman Anti-Trust Law of 1890, a feature of the Standard's duel with the Government, which had begun with the investigation of 1872. In 1876 Standard influence had caused the pigeonholing of the first Interstate Commerce Bill. In 1879 Rockefeller and his associates were indicted for conspiracy, but all suits were withdrawn in 1880 in return for agreements by the Standard...
Heidelberg women students are not permitted to duel. They have received all the privileges accorded to the male members of Germany's famous university except this one, but the fair creatures insist that they should have the right to slash one another's cheeks open with swords. An American student at the Uni-versity before the war was admitted to one of the celebrated dueling clubs - an almost unprecedented honor. After a wait of a few weeks he was called upon to take part in a duel. It is an inviolable rule that the opponents may cut, parry...
...most significant feature of last week's deliberation was the diplomatic duel over Syria. Ismet Pasha, a small shrewd-looking man, with a smile and courtly manners, and a reputation for diplomatic skill, lives right up to all his name means. His frank statement that the Turkish troops now on the Syrian border were sent there to " drive a hard bargain with the French" can only mean one of two things-bluff or business. The situation is extremely delicate and might lead to war between France and Turkey on the smallest inadvertent provocation by local troops. Neither Turkey...
Mark Twain's ludicrous account of the "great French duel," in which he--the second--was the only man injured in thirty years, gives one impression of the French character. A report from Paris that French rugby rules must be revised on account of excessive roughness gives quite another. In the Toulouse-Biarritz match--the semi-finals in the championships--Toulouse lost twelve of its fifteen players, and the Biarritz casualties were eleven...
...duel was fought with cavalry sabres in Rome between Deputy Giunta, Secretary General of the Grand Fascista Council, and Forni, described as one of the military leaders of the Fascisti...