Word: fighters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ferre is the outstanding player on the M. I. T. team, having had two years' experience in Intercollegiate matches. Captain Blake, who handles the sabres, is a hard, experienced fighter...
...least fiery member of the Committee is Senator Brookhart, its Chairman, a bucolic rifleshot, with an evangelistic temperament. Senator Wheeler of Montana, colleague of Senator Walsh, prime mover of the oil investigation, is the active prosecutor. Wheeler is young, radical, a hard fighter, a smiling fighter, somewhat inclined, nevertheless, to lose his head. Strangely enough, he has the accent of Massachusetts, his native State. For comrades, Brookhart and Wheeler have the tart Moses from New Hampshire; Jones of Washington, normally placid and a bit heavy, but roaring, desk-pounding when aroused; Ashurst from Arizona, with a substantial "bazoo...
...argument against its being made an intercollegiate sport is that the idea of a team would give way to enthusiasm in certain outstanding individuals Too much competition is also bad for the members of the team. A professional boxer knows when he has had enough, but a young college fighter will come back for more again and again. The latter has so much energy that he does not know when to stop...
...probably go again to Carl Stearns '26 who has won two falls and three decisions out of seven matches, but the graduation of Morris Michelson '24 and Captain George Karelitz '24 will leave a hole in the line-up not easy to fill. F. B. Hill '26, the scrappiest fighter on the team can take Karelitz's place in the 145-pound class if he can beat out Captain H. R. Wood '27 of the Freshman team, while D. H. Campbell '27 or H. H. Moody '27 may fill Hill's shoes as the 158-pounder. The logical...
...Cummins Transportation Act. That effort won the commendation of LaFollette. Otherwise Senator Smith is not known as especially radical. His place in the Senate, which he has held since 1908, came about largely from his extensive part in organizing the Southern Cotton Association. He is a cotton Senator, a fighter of the boll weevil. Despite his husky voice, he is comparatively mild mannered. He has been Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee before - from January, 1918, to March...