Word: lions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...district or farther south. To ask the hundreds of athletes from distant colleges to make the journey to Boston would be an imposition on coaches and teams. Harvard and Boston have become famous for their athletic hospitality; they must be careful that hospitality does not become greed for the lion's share of the good things...
Since Prime Minister Poincaré is thoroughly tired of office after two and a half years of struggle and achievement, he did not even condescend to appear in the Chamber, last week, to defend his Government. Though suffering from only the lightest attack of influenza, the wise old "Lion of Lorraine" kept to his bed, and let the demagogs in the Palais Bourbon roar. For periods of five, ten, 15 minutes it was impossible to distinguish any orator's impassioned periods above the babel. When a vote of confidence was taken - on a trifling issue of local politics...
Near Challenge, Calif., one Roy Slette saw the bushes move, perceived a mountain lion, picked up a stone (he had no gun), flung with care, struck the beast "between the face and eyes," slew...
Gravely answered the greatest statesman in France, the savior of the franc, the "Lion of Lorraine...
...science, keen, enthusiastic, President Little went into Maine like a lion and came out three years later still more leonine. Flaying Maine for being miserly towards education he left for Michigan to try "on a very large scale the educational policies which the state of Maine has not yet been willing to adopt" (TIME, July 13, 1925). Michigan, he thought, was willing. Last week he had to admit that it was unwilling...