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...Nationalists also girded up their war loins and prepared to run with exceeding swiftness into the fray, thus to aid their ally, Feng, to distract the attention of Chang Tsung-chang and Sun Chuan-fang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: War Resumed | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...hectic half hour furious fusillades swept over the soggy turf of the baseball diamond, the tit-tat-tat of the spitting machine gun sneering at the consistent popping of the rifles. Scouts, grenade dischargers, and wire cutters mingled in the heat of the fray, and many a sailor showed the potential ability of a movie actor by "biting the dust" with a consumate reality of the battle scenes in "What Price Glory." Little pin points of fire from blank shells glowed through the murkiness of the medical men ran about trantically with empty stretchers. All the ghastliness of bloody battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fusillades Fired by Fighting Forces of "U. S. S. Florida" in Foggy Fracas--Soldiers Field Scene of Sham Struggle | 5/26/1927 | See Source »

...intrepid and impotent burbler of the invading nine, was seen during the greater part of yesterday afternoon twining himself into grotesque and inhuman knots on the front steps of the Lampoon building, accompanied by the faint cheers of the teeming masses indoors who were gradually preparing themselves for the fray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 23 to 2 Tally To Tell Tale of Titanic Tilt Today--Lampoon And Crimson Renew Diamond Rivalry With Same Old Result | 5/18/1927 | See Source »

...waxed hot for hours under the vigilant eye of Boston police. Neither side could get the advantage. Darkness came with the score tied. They carried the fight indoors. Banquetting followed. At 3 next morning empty cases were seen piled high about the scene of the last stage of the fray. The CRIMSON editors were still upright. They had maintained their dignity. Harvard had gained the victory. They quitted themselves like gentlemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...past ten days Coach Arnold Horween '21 has been running his men through hard workouts, even to the extent, in several instances, of testing plays out in short scrimmages, and he believes his squad to be in good enough condition now to go through a full length fray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRIDIRON CANDIDATES MAY SEE ACTION IN SCRIMMAGE | 4/6/1927 | See Source »

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