Word: routes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seats in the Legislature. Liberals secured three seats and a Labor candidate, endorsed by the Conservatives, won the single place remaining. Thus, was a Liberal majority of 40 turned into a Conservative majority of the same number. At Ottawa, jubilant Conservatives prophesied the rout of the Liberal Dominion Government in the expected imminent elections...
Uncorking a brand of strategy that made defeat impossible, the gentlemen of the Crimson put the minions of the lampoon to rout this afternoon in the annual football game on Soldiers Field. From start to finish the low minded punsters were suppressed far more efficiently than by police and post-office and finally retired in shame at the short end of the customary 23 to 2 score...
...Gradually the streets of Pasadena emptied as the rout and revel wound out to the Rose Bowl for the annual East-West football game. On a bench in the stadium, Coach Knute Rockne of Notre Dame stroked his jaw as he watched Leland Stanford, in the first few minutes of play, inexorably shoving his team toward its goal line. The Bowl was bedlam, for most of the 55,000 persons present wanted to see Coach Rockne's team shoveded right off the field. Rockne was not worried, merely pensive. He relinquished his jaw, called to him four young...
...Harvard Stadium Princeton's savage Tigers took the measure of a very limp Harvard football team, 34 to 0. "Fair Harvard was only fair," derided a New York football correspondent. Other New York papers were no kinder; the Boston journals sorry, but callously truthful. It was the most complete rout that Harvard has suffered since the '90's. Those who sat in the crowded Stadium saw a bewildered Crimson eleven, first wondering what under the sun Princeton was about; discovering that Princeton was there for business, and finally, allowing Princeton to go right ahead about that business, for all they...
...could be ascertained, the tactics of the rebels is to avoid open attack on Spanish strongholds but to intercept communications, to rout Spanish convoys. Due to the fact that the Moors are excellent marksmen and that they are familiar with the country, their campaign plans were meeting with considerable success...