Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constitutional law to prove that the King government was flatly violating every legal precedent in clinging to power. Needless to say, Liberals read out precedents for Mr. King's acts from other volumes. At length a furious discussion arose as to how many minutes, hours or days William Pitt remained away from the British House of Commons...
...Cramer read the local papers, he would have seen that the sport writers here agreed with you that the Pitt team "had been badly outplayed all afternnoon by W. & J." No other estimate would be possible were one to compare the records of first-downs...
...course, all loyal Pittsburghers like "praiseworthy accomplishments": but, I think, they like truth even more. That the day's result was a fluke was evident to any one who saw Pitt "stumble" over the goal line after a fumble in a perfect...
...affront the people of Pittsburgh with such unsightly aspersions as you cast on the Pitt Panthers after such noted and praiseworthy accomplishments ? We of the Pittsburgh district like our Pirates, our Panthers and our pugilists-point with pride to their accomplishments in the realm of sport, and distinctly view with alarm any attempt on TIME'S part to minimize Pitt's position in the football world...
...grim thing anyhow for a son to live in the shadow of his father's greatness. Only the very great shine through the umbra? Alexander, son of Philip; Alexander, fils de Dumas pere; William, son of the elder Pitt. But what was the waning fortune of the sons of Cromwell, Napolean, Caesar...