Word: fight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...York Governor Charles E. Hughes has defeated Lieutenant-Governor Chanler by over 62,000, after a bitter fight, waged mainly on the issue of the governor's reforms. The contest has attracted wide attention throughout the country...
...first team scored a touchdown on the second eleven in the first ten minutes of play, but after a five-minute intermission the second team put up a great fight and, after a series of well-executed forward passes from Page to Rogers and with the aid of Minot's hard line plunging, went over the first team's goal line for a touchdown. The ball was frequently given to one team in the other's territory to work up the University team's defensive and offensive strength. Just before the second team's score Minot went over the goal...
...might be living today in the appreciative memory of mankind among those who shine as the brightness of the firmament and as the stars for ever and ever. This tragedy of Palestine has been enacted repeatedly in the history of mankind, for those who have fought a good fight and won a great victory pause to congratulate themselves and enjoy the fruits of their labor while others who have been their inferiors pass beyond them toward the greater triumphs that await. The security of the past depends largely upon the fidelity of those to whose keeping the tradition...
...first of the league championship games, Cornell was defeated in an exciting extra-period contest, 15 to 11. The feature of the game was Harvard's great uphill fight, the score at the end of the first half being 7 to 3 in Cornell's favor. This is the first time that Harvard has won from Cornell in lacrosse since 1902. One week later, the team defeated Columbia at New York 10 to 0, and in the deciding championship game a victory was scored against Hobart last Friday on Soldiers Field, 3 to 1. A game with the University...
...last event has been run off next Saturday afternoon. Yale has shown unexpected strength, but it does not follow that the performance can be repeated. Harvard's team is in excellent condition, and not a man is going into the meet who is not determined to make the fight of his life. By accurate computation the result is bound to be close and the slightest mishap may swing the victory...