Word: lairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fran Lee is a certain starter at wingback over the ailing Joe Gardella. The tough-fibred Junior is still nursing some bumps and bruises received in the Tigers' lair and will be available for relief duty only. Joe Koufman and Mose Hallett haven't much chance to get into the ball game...
...fight with Congress over control of the country's' money. But the end of that fight only cleared the field for a mightier one: over control of the country's conduct in case of war overseas. As 34 diehard-isolationists massed in Senator Johnson's lair under the Capitol rotunda to sign a manifesto, lines formed for the longest tussle of all between the 32nd President and the 76th Congress...
Beneath the Capitol's rotunda is a book-lined lair where, 21 years ago, California's Senator Hiram Warren Johnson, then a vigorous ex-Governor and ex-candidate on the Bull Moose ticket of 1912, put his name up on the door without a by-your-leave to anyone. That has been his office all these years, while other Senators shuttle to & from the palatial marble Senate Office Building. One day last week more than a score of Senators took their way to Senator Johnson's lair to join in drafting a manifesto that constituted the gravest...
Chiang nursed his hold over the Yangtze valley, but patriotic Chinese intellectuals distrusted him. His only "offensive" gestures were made against the Chinese "Reds" of the southeastern province of Kiangsi, inner lair of the famed and capable Chinese Soviet generals, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, whose "communism" amounts to little more than a Populistic desire to give land to the tax-gutted and landlord-ridden Chinese peasant. Counting on Chiang's willingness to let the great granary of North China go, the Japanese Minister of War, General Hajime Sugiyama gave his underlings the green light signal without first...
Optimistic, but not in the least overconfident, are the words which express the feelings of Coach Wes Fesler and his Varsity cagers who are invading the Tiger's lair at Princeton tonight, hoping to repeat their "Once Over Lightly" (40 to 39) triumph of the previous meeting of the two teams in Cambridge...