Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fraternity basketball championship was decided Saturday afternoon when Falcon Club outscored Kappa Sigma 20 to 10, to win the final game of the league. The victors now have only the Gore Hall quintet standing between themselves and the intramural title; they will face the Freshmen in the Freshman Gymnasium at 5 o'clock in what promises to be the feature game of the season...
...Gibson was downcast, his pleasant homely face, with its wide humorous mouth succeeded in diplomatically concealing his feelings. He has been attending arms conferences for the last four years. First it was the 1925 "Traffic-in-Arms" conference, then the 1926-27 preparatory arms commission and finally the ill-starred 1927 conference on naval armaments, of which he was chairman. He has heard all the polite haggling of open and closed diplomacy. He has seen admirals and generals mix a sour brew of national honor, strategy and armament statistics. And he sums his observations thus...
...live. On the eve of the attack there is sent to his company the brother of the girl he loves−the last person in the world he wants to see him. In the end it is the youngster, eager for life, who dies. The other goes out to face the attack...
When Admiral Lord Nelson created by his heroic death a stencil for millions of Victorian lithographs, he is said also to have left desolate the most beautiful woman of his time. Lady Hamilton's white face and big eyes, painted by Romney and Gainsborough, were so widely admired that her elderly husband investigated no rumored infidelities "for fear they might be true." When Nelson left her to save his country, he asked her to sing for him once more−and there now is heard, apparently issuing from the lips of Corinne Griffith, "You'll Take the High...
...intramural championship will begin on Friday at 5 o'clock, when the fraternity champions will face the Gore quintet. On Saturday the team winning this game will meet the Class champions for the intramural title...