Word: game
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Responsibility. All this was no game. It was no mean-spirited attempt to increase Russia's difficulties. It was no matter of "taking sides." There were 41 U. S. sailors on City of Flint. Had the U. S. followed another policy it might have been placed in the position of evading its responsibility to them. Unexpected refusal of the Russians to permit U. S. access to the crew opened a hole as big as the blast of a torpedo in the Russian case. Newspaper dispatches called the case a U. S. diplomatic victory. There could scarcely be a victory...
...Although British propaganda continually tries to throw the seeds of discord between America and Germany, we in Germany are firmly convinced that the common sense of the American gradually sees through this game...
...score of that game was Michigan 130, West Virginia...
Last week all that was left of Yost's famed point-a-minute football teams-the early-century Wolverines who during five years (1901-05) lost one game out of 57 and rolled up 2,821 points to their opponents' 42-were invited to Ann Arbor for a Grand Homecoming with grizzled 68-year-old Fielding Yost, still the grand mogul of Michigan football (although he stopped coaching twelve years ago to devote all his time to directing athletics...
...yards from scrimmage. At the end of the first half, Yale had made only one first down; just before the end of the third quarter, they crossed midfield for the first time; and, although they managed to sneak in an airway touchdown in the last few minutes of the game, their 27-to-7 drubbing was practically a knockout. All afternoon the husky Yales had gained only 35 yards from scrimmage...