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...Sabre: McVey (Y) defeated Elmer Harp (H), 5 to 2; McVey (Y) defeated W. K. Wyant (H), 5 to 1; W. K. Wyant (H) defeated Ridgeway (Y), 5 to 4; Ridgeway (Y) defeated Elmer Harp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY SWORDSMEN BEAT ELI BY ONE POINT | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...instant the door was blocked. Brutal with fear the bigger children fought, kicked, trampled the little ones under foot. Inside the theatre 15-year-old Jimmie McVey, operator's assistant, fought to show children to the side door. He could rescue only 30. Fear-crazed youngsters tried to climb up on the wall gas brackets, out of the panic. The brackets broke, flooded the theatre with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Paisley's Hogmanay | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...demonstrate the courage to calmly abolish the entire system of credit bookkeeping."* If colleges are going to be less mechanical about how they teach, they will need to be more scrupulous about whom they teach. President Arthur E. Morgan of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio) and President Frank L. McVey of the University of Kentucky both harped on the increasing necessity for stricter, more selective admissions policies. To this phase of the subject the Chicago Tribune made a characteristic contribution: ". . . It may be that the education processes will have to catch the student at a much younger age to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Chicago | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

Harry Wills, Negro fighter, who has knocked out Sam Langford, Sam McVey, Fred Fulton: " I'm black all right, but I've lived a lot whiter than the majority of white fighters now in the ring. No one can deny that I've fought every one selected for me. I don't play the cabarets and I've never been in court on any charge, but what has it got me ? One thing you can be sure of. If I were champion tomorrow, I'd be just as unassuming and peaceful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Words | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

Westbrook Seminary--McQuiggan c.f., Clune 3b., Shea s.s., Cronin 2b., Massey l.f., Cummings c., Kelbeher p., Leary r.f., McVey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATE RALLY BRINGS 1926 VICTORY OVER WESTBROOK | 5/31/1923 | See Source »

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