Word: foul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amount of evidence will convince me," said he, "that my government would deliberately invest with diplomatic immunity a fugitive from justice for the foul purpose of enabling him to evade arrest...
Score--Harvard 43, M. I. T., 28. Goals from floor--Wells 8, Feustel 6, Davidson 6, Reisner 3, Jewell 3, Upton 2, Hageman 2, Farnum 2, Dame. Goals from foul--Feustel 3, Wells, Brockelman. Referee--George Hoyt. Time--Four 10-minute periods...
Score--Harvard 33, M. I. T. 24. Goals from floor--Wenner 5, Nee 5, Pierce 4, Nido 3, Rex 2, Harrison 2, Motter, Lawson. Goals from foul--Wenner 2, Lawson 2, Mahady, Nido, Baskerville, Nelson, Motter, Nee. Referee--E. Kelleher. Umpire--George Hoyt. Time--20-minute halves...
...Paris, cocky William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling touched gloves again with Primo Carnera, the Brobdingnagian Italian carpenter who recently beat him on a foul (TIME, Dec. 9). In the clinches Stribling strained and sweated against a body 85 Ibs. heavier, 12½ in. taller than his own. In the sixth round he hit Carnera in the stomach. Carnera's vast legs buckled. He knelt a minute, then rose. In the seventh round little Stribling's punches angered Carnera. A strange expression contorted his wide face. The bell was ringing as he rushed at Stribling, swung at him three...
...picaresque way down the primrose path. At 18 he had already tasted jail because of a "dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof was covered with sheets of lead. Eventually he escaped, with the help of a fellow-prisoner, by cutting...