Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Characteristically the Chancellor ignored the warning of his doctor's thermometer, and rushed impetuously into the verbal fray. He found the Laborites preparing to attack his new tax on petroleum fuels from a shrewd angle. They were about to plead with fervor the cause of the-poor-man-with-a-kerosene-lamp...
...falling before the Amazon-like assault? It seems as if the master-believer would be forced to return to defend his hard-won following. Once in Zion City, the clash of the two forces will eclipse any struggle of such intensity as Straton versus Darwin. The McPherson-Voliva fray promises well to be the true battle of the century...
...These words, though written on the eve of another fray, epitomize the feeling of Harvard today as the Team prepares to take the field. For "Purple" read "Crimson"; for "Cambridge" read "Princeton"; for "Holy Cross" read "Harvard Crimson...
...Secretary MacDonald's reference to squirrels and Mexican generals in his statement about Mr. Goodwin is still more entangled by the latter's course. It was bad enough for the Commonwealth to be at sword's points with one foreign power; now Mr. Goodwin would bring Sweden into the fray, and his pointed allusion to the Sacco-Vanzetti commission of last summer may annoy the irritable Signor Mussolini and cause Italy to be arrayed among the enemies of Massachusetts...
...best college players and has the largest handicap in the Boston League. Besides Clark's six point handicap, the University trio has a further restriction in the rating of J. P. Cotton '29 on the list for three points. The two teams will enter the fray on an even basis, however, as R. B. Burnett ocC. has no handicap, and each of the artillerymen is set back three goals. Burnett lacks experience but his play has improved considerably of late...