Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soldiers Field, Cambridge, Mass., is surrounded by a dreary, dilapidated stadium; from factory chimneys near it long pennants of smoke twist in the wind and mark the low sky. Into the stadium last week there drifted a drooling drizzle and a cold, odorous draught. North Carolina, accustomed to warm blue afternoons, grew as stiff as a dying hare. Harvard backs called Gilligan and French fooled Carolina ends called Sapp and Presson so well that Harvard won 20-0. --Time...
...full of cogent wisdom were the President's remarks, that only persons of lively imagination realized that in the precise little man before them they beheld the greatest and most romantic Conqueror of today. All of vast China has been his battlefield, and from South to North he has conquered or reduced all to submission. Geographically the arena of Marshal Chiang's triumph dwarfs to insignificance that in which was fought the Great War? for China is four times as large as the total battle areas of Europe, with the Balkans thrown in. From the standpoint of manpower and gunpower...
...sister of the surviving widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, and was seen victoriously back in the fray. Just as Russia had supplied the cash and propaganda to assist Chiang in conquering South China, so a new ally appeared to lend crushing weight to Nationalism's conquest of the North. This new ally was (and is) the so-called "Christian" Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (195,000 men). With Marshal Feng's potent aid, Marshal Chiang accomplished the capture of Peking last Spring (TIME, June 4); and since then, with all China...
Forces only partly known, like hidden electromagnets, were dragging against his fifth system. The New York Central wanted him out of their territory; it wanted the B. R. & P. as a cross-country, north-south connecting line. The B. & O. wanted the same B. R. & P. to reach the eastern Great Lakes. The Van Sweringens, close friends and complements of the N. Y. C., apparently stood by. Only the Pennsylvania sided with Mr. Loree's aspirations. Even so, financial and railroad men believe (such things are impossible to ascertain), Pennsylvania's President William Wallace Atterbury, while fanning Mr. Loree...
Five men are listed who are not on the squad; six men are unlisted, all of whom were on the squad before the North Carolina game. Of the thirty-two men named who remain on the squad, twenty four are given wrong numbers. Four names are incorrect. A cursory look at the Army side of the cardboard reveals seven errors...