Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Wachter hopes that Captain Gordon will be fit to enter the fray, but his injured leg continues to bother him. If he is not in condition to start, Merriam will again be used in his place...
Coach Wachter's men will line up with Merriam in the place of Captain Gordon. The latter injured his leg in the Columbia fray Monday, and he will not be used tonight unless it is necessary. It will be interesting to see how the Harvard attack functions without Gordon, whose all-around brilliance has made him the mainspring of the Crimson offense. With their versatile leader on the bench, the other University players, who have been systematically feeding him all season, will be forced to rely more upon their own shooting ability. An offense built around a single star...
Fights to win the fray...
Three hundred seventy-five delegates assembled from the anthracite region, bearing the standards of William J. Brennan, conservative President of District 1, and Rinaldo Cappellini, radical President-elect of that district. Everyone was set for the fray. On the first day Brennan's followers presented a resolution to the effect that Cappellini was ineligible to take office, not because improperly elected-he had a substantial majority at the elections some time ago -but because of his radical leanings. Brennan's followers were ready to stage a vigorous fight to prevent the young Italian radical from taking office. Next...
...group of musicians hurriedly, and put them through the ticklish walks, paces, and gallops of pieces like Die Meistersinger and Tristan. Conductor Blech is an excellent director, but the Archangel Gabriel, himself, would have his troubles with a group of players hastily recruited, and thrown into such a fray as the last half of the Meistersinger prelude...