Word: robin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual Union Chess Tournament, which starts next Monday, January 12, will be conducted on a plan different from that used in past years, it was announced yesterday. The "round-robin" system, whereby each player will play one game with every other participant in the tournament, has been adopted to replace the method of elimination...
TIME Minneapolis, Minn. New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: I quote from TIME of Nov. 24: Who suddenly killed Cock Robin? "I did!" cried Minnesota.* "I marked him sure. I wounded him sore." Robin Red Grange, most brilliant of backs, took the field at Minneapolis with his fellow lllini and at once raced off around end for a touchdown. He started other races, but Minnesota ends crashed him, Minnesota secondary defense heaped upon him. In the second period, he was subdued. In the third, his arm hung limp, he left the field for the season. Meanwhile, Minnesota's offense plunged...
Tonight's match may be a round robin, with the University playing the Artillery outfit as well as Yale, but at a late hour last night Captain Clark thought that this was improbable...
...suddenly killed Cock Robin? "I did!" cried Minnesota. "I marked him sure. I wounded him sore." Robin Red Grange, most brilliant of backs, took the field at Minneapolis with his fellow Illini and at once raced off around end for a touchdown. He started other races, but Minnesota ends crashed him, Minnesota secondary defense heaped upon him. In the second period, he was subdued. In the third, his arm hung limp, he left the field for the season. Meanwhile, Minnesota's offense plunged, pounded, plowed. Illinois sank back to third in the Conference standing. Score: Minnesota 20, Illinois...
Douglas Fairbanks, as the thief who becomes a prince, is at his best. In "Robin Hood" one was conscious that Doug was acting a good part; in this Arabian Nights fantasy one is not aware that he is acting at all. And in the same way, one is not conscious of the impossibility of the multitude of mysterious and magic occurrences which are continually taking place. Every trick known to photographic art is used, and so skillfully used that the most extraordinary events seem perfectly natural. Elton Thomas, the author, has chosen a number of incidents from the Arabian Nights...