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...Norris, also distressed by the failure of his frontal attack, attempted a feint. He wrote a personal letter to Heaton, urging him, in effect, to leave the Episcopal Church and become a Baptist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reportorial Christianity | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...uncanny accuracy in the first period held the Crimson to a single tally, the result of a quick feint by Beals. Half way through the second session, however, he began to weaken, and there-after was not such a riddle to the University skaters. Several times he dropped flat and saved scores from scrimmages at his door-step. On three occasions Referee Sands ordered a face-off only three feet from the net, but each time the Tech goal-tend pulled out safely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SIX MAKES SHORT WORK OF M.I.T. | 1/10/1924 | See Source »

...them through natural inclination; he is his own compulsion. A man without a leaning towards any college activity would probably take his share of the newly prescribed college life much as a small boy takes his dose of castor oil. Perhaps, after all, this move at Middlebury is a feint, in strict accordance with the tactics of the Missouri mule "skinner", to drive the student back to his studies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVERSE STRATEGY | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

Score, Harvard '26 23, M. I. T. '26 3, Goals from floor, Jones 2, Nash 2, Combe 2, Smith, Feint, Timmerman, Goals after louis, Smith 9, Nash 3, Timmerman, Referee, George Hort, Time-keeper, S. H. Hooks. Time of halves, 20 minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YEARLING BASKET MEN SCORE OVERWHELMING WIN OVER M.I.T. | 1/18/1923 | See Source »

...impregnability of our arms. If this is the heralded offensive, we welcome it as an opportunity to inflict great losses upon the enemy and to bring about a new alignment in the West which may well permit successes for us in the near future. If it is but a feint, we will continue to be watchful for the time when the German lines may feel the irresistible force of our advance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE | 3/23/1918 | See Source »

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