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Word: matches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rugby match at Marmande, France, between Marmande and Bergerac, a Marmande player nearly succeeded in strangling Beausoleil, the Bergerac captain. As Beausoleil was dragged off the field unconscious, his tongue hanging out, foam on his mouth, onlookers shouted, "Well done! Kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: St. Martin et al | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...cage-man in Learnard who vied with Farrel of Yale on Saturday night in making difficult and spectacular stops. Jackson, Elkins, and H. H. Newell '29, who will all probably get a try at the goal position for Harvard, will have to be in the best of form to match the opposing cageman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST REAL TEST FACES SEXTET IN BATTLE TONIGHT | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...conceding them a nine-goal handicap, while the Freshman aggregation meets the horsemen from Troop C of the National Guard cavalry on an even basis. The latter game will start at 8.15 o'clock in the Commonwealth Armory, Boston, and will the played in alternate chukkers with the feature match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLARK CHOSEN CAPTAIN OF CRIMSON POLO TEAM | 12/15/1928 | See Source »

Yesterday the Boston Harvard Club beat the University squash team, 3 to 2. The match which was played on the Harvard Club's courts was featured with surprises chief among which was the defeat of B. H. Whitbeck '29, captain of the University team by R. W. Reed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CLUB DOWNS RACQUETMEN BY 3 TO 2 | 12/15/1928 | See Source »

Reputedly the engagement was broken because His Majesty, a puppet of Signor Benito Mussolini, now aspires to wed a Royal princess. If his fanatical Moslem subjects permit him to turn Roman Catholic he may espouse Princess Giovanna of Italy. If that much mooted match proves infeasible, the Moslem King might conceivably marry one of the Moslem daughters of His Majesty Fuad I of Egypt. Unquestionably any princess who marries King Ahmed Zogu takes her life in her hands and risks the imminent possibility that her husband may turn corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Blood Feuds | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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