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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that settlement of this question should not be postponed, last week, there had come to Geneva the Premier of Hungary Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen. He, though potent at home, was no match, at Geneva, for M. Braind who shortly persuaded the Council to delay even consideration of this issue until the next Council meeting in March. Chagrined Hungarians remembered that it was M. Briand who, last March, got the Council to postpone this same matter until the present December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Briand's Miracle | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...51st Brigade, Field Artillery, defeated the 1931 polo team Saturday night by a score of 6 to 5 1-2 in a see-saw match played at the Common-wealth Armory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEAVY ARTILLERY DRIVE DEFEATS 1931 POLOISTS | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...answer to the question whether he had met with unsportsmanlike treatment in France, as has been hinted at by many writers, he answered. "No crowd in Europe ever behaved as badly as the American crowd to Cochet in the Davis Cup match, and you can tell them I said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. T. TILDEN URGES TRIP TO EUROPE FOR U.S. TENNIS | 12/14/1927 | See Source »

...Junior class has reached the third round and with the exception of one match the Senior class has reached the same stage in the tournament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Warburg Reaches Squash Finals | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

...refused to take the odd pawn at the price of exchanging rooks; Alekhine sent his king to destroy the Cuban's pawns and on the 82nd move, play stopped for the evening. The next night Capablanca did not, in the face of sure defeat, resume it. After the longest match in chess history?74 nights?there was a new champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Capablanca Bested | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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