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...Turner first broke into sporting headlines two years ago when he rose toward the end of the season to first string ranks, and in the desperate Crimson defense against a more powerful Yale eleven which brought forth the famed 0.0 tie of that year he stood out as the moot stalwart of all barriers in the path of the Eli progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/28/1927 | See Source »

...According to despatches, a Philadelphian, to show his friend how the moot blow landed, pinched his friend quickly on stomach and chin. The friend toppled, fractured his skull, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Matter of Opinion | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...clock offers another moot question to the Vagabondian public when Professor Demos explains William James' Conception of Free Will to those who make Emerson D a throw back to the Platonic Academy. At the same hour Dr. Mason in Emerson F will expound "Marxism and Bolshevism," a lecture which should draw heavily from those who are interested in socialistic ideas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...struts what was once the Great White Way, flirts with the girls of the Florodora Sextette, misbehaves toward his sweetheart Camille (Zazu Pitts) in a sporty buggy, thus forcing her to trudge a dusty homeward path; in short, does all the inept things possible for a lionized lump. The moot point is, why did he strike out with the bases full? The breath of scandal is finally deodorized by Luck and Love. The home-run king reigns on in left-handed magnificence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Apr. 18, 1927 | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Censorship of all kinds, from the banning of cinema osculation in Philadelphia to the suppression of books because of their titles in Boston, is a moot question, and certainly the question from the standpoint of industrial problems, promises to be of interest, however Mr. Smith chooses to treat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/2/1927 | See Source »

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