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Word: marred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton, N. J., October 26--with only a few minor injuries to mar the physical condition of the squad, Princeton is starting the last two weeks of practice prior to the final encounters with Harvard and Yale. As regards injuries, at least, the Tiger mentors seem to be better off than the coaches of Princeton's greatest rivals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLGATE FRAY REVEALS FLAW IN TIGER OFFENSE | 10/27/1925 | See Source »

...rains fell all along the French front, the forces of le Maréchal Pétain took up impregnable positions fanning out toward the Mediterranean from Kifane to a distance of some 20 miles. At the extreme northeast tip of the fan, French troops were reported to be in contact near Syan with a Spanish force (see SPAIN) which had advanced thither from Ajdir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In the Riff | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...least notable item in this theorv is the mention of Wu Pei-fu, for IHt.U or nothing has been heard of him in mf»"<-moons. Yet there was a time when mar-expected that he would succeed wh<"- Yuan-Shi Kai failed-unify China h. military force and constitutional principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Two and Two | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

WHAT'S O' CLOCK-Amy Lowell- Houghton Mifflin ($2.25). These are the last poems that a very sensitive and intelligent lady wrote, most of them while she sat in her garden or study between arduous hours compiling a ponderous life of Poet John Keats (TIME, Mar. 2). As she was alone most of the time, her poems usually drifted like brilliant toy balloons, or crackled like showering sparks, out of her pure ego. Three hours she spent once, imagining, chaffing, quizzing, loving three "sister poets"-Sappho, "Ba" Browning, Emily Dickinson. When the purple grackles spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bibliophile* | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

France had been intending to convene her Parliament on Oct. 6. It was hoped that before Oct. 6: 1) M. Briand could negotiate the Security Pact; 2) M. Caillaux might properly negotiate a debt settlement with the U. S.; 3) Maréchal Petain would plant a decisive blow in Abd-el-Krim's midRiff. Now France is less sanguine of the immediate success of her three champions. The Government has postponed the opening of Parliament until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Postponement | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

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