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...year contract on a home-and-home basis, and emphasis will be placed on the diplomatic manouevres since 1926 with their relation to the present move. In that connection, it must be remembered that the function of athletic authorities is not to score diplomatic "points" nor to outwit rival authorities by subtle negotiation, but rather to arrange contests which as nearly as possible reflect the undergraduate sentiment in the institutions involved. Apparently Harvard and Princeton officials have decided in this instance to abandon the first theory in favor of the second and sounder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON HAILS FOOTBALL RENEWAL | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...today to give the Injun team a victory, but I Hardy think so. Yesterday afternoon was Friday for the Big Green, and maybe that wily Fishman wasn't busy delivering the goods. Dartmouth has Morton this year than last, and they may be Trusting in a passing attack to outwit the Junior Dean, but Casey told me last Saturday night that he would tighten up on air raids, and I hope that all will be Wells with the Harvard team...

Author: By Dr. HU Flung huey, | Title: DR. HUEY GIVES GREEN GOOD GROUNDS TO GIVE UP GHOST | 10/22/1932 | See Source »

...family "work-shop," tries to infect his father, his brother John with his disease. At first they are doubtful of such folly as to give up cod fishing for lobster potting in the middle of winter, but eventually Marney's visions of "tons of brass," and the challenge to outwit, outdare the Fosdycks wins them over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Wine in Old Tanks | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

Smart is King George's youngest son Prince George. He thought up in his schooldays a way to outwit Queen Mary. She gave him only four shillings a week pocket money, exacted his word of honor not to borrow. Honorable, he priced his own autograph at two bob (shillings), sold as many as he could, clipped his father's autographs out of letters, priced and sold them for a quid (pound), but his mother's autographs he kept. Smart again, the Prince while serving under a British naval captain chosen by Queen Mary, gave his superior officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sickened Prince | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...have received, but it brings forth at the same time a most ominous fact. Men no longer control their destinies, instead they are at the mercy of events. Social, political, and economic forces are so complex that in themselves they defy solution. Bismarck could unify and control Germany by outwitting Napoleon III, but no man today can lay out a course for himself and hope to outwit circumstance. To elaborate this point the author cites the case of Mussolini in Italy. His contention is that if Il Duce had lived in the last century his tremendous ability coupled with...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/25/1931 | See Source »

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