Word: routs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imposing total of points was rolled up on Saturday by the strongest opponents of the Crimson. Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, and Yale, each ran roughshod over their respective enemies by decisive scores. Lehigh was put to rout by Princeton while Holy Cross lost a hard battle to Fordham by the narrow margin of four points. The scores follow...
Within 72 hours Last Stander Chang's army of 50,000 was put to absolute rout by Nationalist & Mohammedan General Pai Chung-hsi, who took 20,000 prisoners, and barely missed capturing Polygamist Chang as he fled to Manchuria. Rejoicing was general, for Chang Tsung-chang is brutal, a thief, a sadist who loves to lash his prisoners, an old-woman-beater and a young-woman-despoiler, a murderer, treacherous, outrageous, godless (TIME, March 7, 1927). But, as Columnist Brisbane remarked, Chang Tsung-chang has "verve"; and 20 wives and concubines have not rendered him "anemic." As such...
...city of Peking, for five centuries the traditional Capital of China, fell last week to the South Chinese Nationalist Armies. Noble was the evacuation carried out by the great Marshal Chang Tso-lin. Scarcely a retreat, and in no sense a rout, the War Lord's departure took on the semblance of a stately pilgrimage. The event was of paramount importance because, for the first time in the present decade of Civil War, it can now be substantially claimed that all of China proper is under a single regime-the Nationalist Government, founded by the late, famed and revered...
...father, son and serving man in that happy Spanish household find that there is a certain something about Nubi that,--well, disturbs them. It takes one act of this play to get the said Nubi onto the stage, and two more before purity, mother love, jealousy and much more rout...
...game opened with J. P. Cotton '29 scoring for the University, closely followed by another goal by F. A. Clark '29. Then Baldwin took a pass from Wallop and scored one of Yale's few points. The next period was a rout with Clark, the highest individual scorer of the game, and Captain H. A. White '28 frequently penetrating their rival's goal: In the third chukker, Clark scored-twice, White three times, and H. G. Burnett '29 once, putting the game safely away beyond any doubt. The only Yalo score in the last period of made by Phipps after...