Word: duels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...test of its ability. At the time of the M. I. T.-University and Yale-Princeton struggles the Tigers had an admittedly superior combination to the Crimson's. What two more weeks of training in both camps have done can be determined precisely only by tomorrow's duel. Crimson track teams have been noted in the past for their rapid development in the latter part of the season; and this year's squad is no exception to the rule. The Tigers appeared to be at the peak of their strength against the Elis. Whether they have been able to maintain...
With the true causes of war as dim and uncertain as in the famous duel of Lewis Carroll's, General Wu and General Chang marched forth, each fighting against the other for the unity of China. General Wu has won after a battle lasting several days, and controls Peking and the government; while Chang is fleeing northward, his troops scattered in all directions...
With Pelletier out of the race, the Boston mayoralty contest has narrowed down to a duel between John R. Murphy and James M. Curley; notwithstanding the fact that there are two others in the field, O'Connor and Baxter. The Curley-Coakley combination is to Boston what Tammany is to New York; in this election they hope to eust the Good Government administration that has existed under Mayor Peters, substituting for it a regime such as existed when Mr. Curley was in power four years ago. Mr. Curley's public record has not been marked by any particularly brilliant service...
...school history of England a satisfactory guide. How many Englishmen know how the thousands of American prisoners were treated on Long Island in the war of the revolution? How many Americans know how the captain of the Shannon was wounded and doomed to a life of pain in the duel with the Chesapeake? There are far greater things of which the history should be known. It is only since the world war revealed something of the strength and the resources of the United States that the younger people of England have turned their eyes with new looks of interest...
When we were children we used to dislike taking pills. So the doctors, like the men in G. B. S.'s "duel of sex", promptly went us one step better, and coated those pills with sugar. After that it was better; we even conceived a certain liking for being dosed--provided that the pills were sweet enough. Susan Glaspoll's "Inheritors" is like that: a strong and rather disagreeable moral lesson in three acts sufficiently coated with technique and artistry to be palatable--enjoyable...