Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Rowe, has had a different lineup almost every day due to the uncertainties of fall schedules. Last year's Freshmen have been kept intact and, being the only boat to row together consistently during the season, have shown rapid improvement and can usually give the varsity a good fight. Some of these sophomores may step into the varsity and are certain to crack the Jayvees, notably Stevens and Richards, now rowing 7 and 4 respectively...
...civil courts are open, state officials can ordinarlly obtain there abundant help in the maintenance of order, for instance, an injunction at the suit of the Attorney-General against the public nuisance caused by the assemblage of a large number of disorderly persons in connection with a prize fight or horse race...
Libel suits involving public officials and prominent persons are almost certain to create a stir. But there is more than mere slander in the Narragansett fracas. The fight between two unscrupulous persons, one, a hot-headed politician, and the other, a person who, many believe, is trying to buy his way into politics, is bound to be no ordinary fray. Each man has demanded the removal of the other, with aspersions on character and integrity freely cast. Each man has defied the other, and each has taken up the other's dare. The courts have reversed the decision...
...century the liveliest landmark in Denver (called Goldtown). Nominally he is the mining editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald, at a life salary of $15 a week; in practice his daily pieces automatically go in the managing editor's wastebasket. His real mission in life is to fight the 20th Century. Tourists, those "fleas on the world's back." who always go for him with cameras, he always goes for with his swordcane. But tourists are small fry. His real enemy is 83-year-old Colonel Anthony Steele, who 50 years ago squeezed Captain Trolley...
Three years of patient work on the part of Dick Harlow and the players with whom he has labored have been responsible for this great change, and it has become almost commonplace to bestow the credit where it belongs without any regard for the intensely hard fight the coaches have had these few years. Lest anyone think complacently about Harvard's success on the gridiron this year as something bound to come in the normal course of events, let him remember the spirit that prevailed at Soldiers Field three short years...