Word: routs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lombard, Terrier left wing is the man that the Crimson defense will have to watch tonight. His speedy play and accurate shooting make him one of the most dangerous wings in Boston hockey circles. He saved his team from a complete rout by the University Club by sending the puck past the goalie three times unassisted...
...remainder of the trading week. The recovery of Thursday afternoon had brought most of the list back to within a few points of its Thursday opening. In the two final days an unofficial but obviously potent banking pool stood ready to prevent a retreat from becoming a rout, a recession from developing into a panic. In addition to the banks already mentioned, the banking pool was described as including George F. Baker's First National, thus renewing the old Morgan-Baker alliance which once caused J. P. Morgan to remark that the friendship of George F. Baker...
Crowded out of the spotlight of Eastern football by the Yale-Dartmouth and Pitt-Ohio clashes, the Harvard-Florida game was however very significant to followers of the Crimson. Harvard shook off the gloom still hanging over from the Dartmouth rout and showed itself to be a rejuvenated eleven in setting the Alligators...
...could. Secretary of War James William Good last week might have charged out into a grassy field just below New Orleans, waved his Arms wildly, uttered loud noises from his throat. This he might have done to rout a herd of cows complacently grazing over the site of one of the few U.S. victories in the War of 1812. But as decorous conduct is expected of the Secretary of War, and as he was hundreds of miles from New Orleans, Mr. Good had to content himself with drafting a bill and forwarding it to the House Military Affairs Committee providing...
Suddenly, at blackest midnight, wily General Liu made an unexpected sortie from Ninghaichow, fell upon and routed the besieging army of 25,000 men. and advanced straight upon Chefoo. Seemingly Marshal Chang had left the siege to be maintained by subordinates. When they informed him via field telegraph of their rout, he instantly demanded two millions more from the terrified merchants of Chefoo, threatened to burn down their warehouses, kidnap their women, tear out their beards and worse-if they did not pay. When he had collected all he could, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World" sailed from Chefoo...