Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was a scene, wherein seven years of emotion simmered and boiled over. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts had finally and flatly rejected evidence for a new trial on the grounds that there had not been a "failure of justice." Judge Webster Thayer, clad in black robes, with a face as still and as pallid as an ancient cameo, entered the courtroom to sentence Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair. Bluecoats fingered sawed-off shotguns. Secret service agents with crimson rosettes in their lapels posed as Reds. Women sobbed. The clerk droned: "Nicola Sacco, have you anything...
...Nationalists back, South of the Yangtze River. Then I will treat with their military leader, Chiang Kaishek, on a brotherly basis. With him I have no quarrel, for I hear that in his heart he too wants to get rid of the Bolsheviks. Only two Chinese parties would then face each other across the Yangtze, and it should not be hard to establish a great laborious country, peaceful and blessed by the Gods...
Among the point-winners who figured against Tech last spring who will face the M. I. T. squad again, are Captain E. C. Haggerty '27, several times Inter-collegiate champion over the mile distance: A. H. O'Neil '28, middle distance star who captained the Freshman two years ago, A. H. Miller, '27, a sure point winner in the past and C. A. Pratt '28, all-round performer in the weight events...
...stir in the world of levity, except as new grist for the laugh mill. Even the awe-inspiring news that tuberculosis takes a large roll of gentlemen graduated from college funny papers will not act as a sedative. Caps will continue to hob and bills to iiugle in the face of overwhelming numbers. After all, is the conforming reflection, these statistics prove exactly what most statistics prove...
...Barbee '28, who easily weathered nine innings on the mound against Boston University, and R. R. Ketchum '29, one of the leading hurlers of last year's Freshman team, are slated to pitch for Harvard. The Crimson batters will face Erickson, Beech or Johnson. SPRINGFIELD HARVARD Jenkins l.f. c.f. Burns Wright 3b. r.f. Jones Duncan c.f. 3b. Zarakov Mahinkin 1b. l.f. Lord Misar r.f. 1b. Tobin James 2b. 2b. Ullman Craig s.s. c. Chauncey Putnam or Steeves c. s.s. Chase, Donaghy Erickson, Beech, or Johnson p p Barbee, Ketchum