Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lines he had chosen, and after 15 years, has convinced most of the Alumni of that University that his plans were sound, while at the same time winning for himself a place as one of the foremost educators in the country. University Presidents, who are "yes-men," rarely fight large numbers of influential Alumni...
...elimination bout held during the course of the week, H. J. Kaufman '29 defeated Dudley Davis Jr. '31. As a result he will continue to fight for the University in the 165-pound class as he did in the Brown match...
...years, since his fall from politics, Mr. Lenroot has been flitting about Washington, Micawber-like. He had captained many a Coolidge Senate fight; he never lost faith in the ultimate bigheartedness of the White House. For $10,000 he successfully out-lobbied the Walsh Senate resolution for investigating interstate public utilities, transforming it into a toothless inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission. He distinguished himself last month by winning the so-called Mayflower Marathon: when Herbert Hoover, returning from South America, arrived the first morning at his hotel headquarters, it was Mr. Lenroot who, first of all comers, rushed...
...Sydney Robert Fremantle, retired last year. Admiral Sir Edmund's snowy whiskers often festooned a royal carriage at the opening of Parliament. On his gist birthday he criticized the wary tactics of Admiral Jellicoe at Jutland (1916). "When you see ships," he stated, "you are supposed to fight them. I did in my day, and we took risks...
...Gale back to his passionate young wife, a husband and yet not a husband. For several years they stuck it out, till cumulative suspicion and repression hurled Justine into the arms of a lover, and Gale to the distractions of Spain. The lover proved less satisfying than the bull-fight-not the conventional scarlet-cloaked trickery, but a duel during which Gale rode bareback, crashing down gorges, wallowing through torrents, staggering up embankments, till finally he brought the bull to its knees...