Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced yesterday that the football squad has lest the services of Ernie Sergeant, aggressive watch arm guard. On the advice of Harvard doctors, the diminutive Senior was forced to cut short his grid activities because of recurring headaches...
Dick Harlow immediately drafted George Downing from the rapidly improving end squad and converted him into a guard. The loss of Sargeant left the guard positions slightly undermanned, and the big Senior end should bolster up this point...
...Downing's first crack at a guard job, although he has played every other position on the line except center. In prep school and as a Freshman he was at tackle; he was an end his Sophomore year and a tackle his Junior year. This fall he was an end up until yesterday afternoon...
...Palestine's Arabs, the Mufti two years ago escaped to Syria, where French authorities, never very cooperative with the British in that part of the world, allowed him to continue to direct the Palestine terrorist campaign. Fortnight ago. however, French authorities arrested several of his followers, tightened the guard around his residence, appeared willing finally to cooperate with Britain in putting down any nascent Arab rebellion. This was inconvenient to the Mufti. He soon disappeared. He was reported to have escaped to Bagdad, and rumor had it that he might go from Iraq to friendly Saudi Arabia and there...
...Britain's first soldier dead in action in France was reported: William Roper, 28, of Dewsbury, Yorkshire, killed on volunteer guard duty...