Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago "To Get Action," the statesman who once said of H. G. Wells, "the old gentleman has gone gaga," the British Laborite party has no more conspicuous member. Last week as plump Commander Kenworthy was preparing for a hotly contested general election, his mother had a fist fight with her landlady...
...mile mark Cornell had a decided lead which stretched longer and longer as the three crew swept down towards the northeast corner of the Basin. With the winner out ahead, Harvard and Tech were left to fight it out for second place. Here the latter's lighter weight which allowed them to ride clear of the waves and their ability to stick to Harvard with a lower pace then S. W. Swaim '31 had been setting for his crew, proved the decisive factors. As the Engineers raised the beat in the final quarter mile they passed the Crimson oarsmen...
...Tupper '29 in the low hurdles. N. P. Hallowell '32 is a yearling star who should extend Martin and R. G. Gould '30, last year's 440 winner, in the mid- die distance runs, while R. P. Porter '29 and David Cobb '31 will have another opportunity to fight it out in the half mile. J. W. Crickard '31 is a Freshman comer in the dash events. T. F. Mason '30, last year's 220 winner, should have no trouble in walking away with the event again if one can judge from his showing in the triangular meet, while...
...Washington, President Hoover described the appearance of Halterophora capitata as "a grave emergency." He called upon Congress to authorize the transfer, from the Department of Agriculture's boll weevil fund, of $4,250,000 to fight the Florida fly. The House complied promptly, last week. The Senate took its time...
...Emden sent a landing party ashore to destroy the wireless station of Port Refuge in the Keeling Islands. Up steamed the Australian cruiser Sydney, half again as large as the Emden. After a running fight which lasted ten hours the Emden was driven ashore, a blazing wreck...