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...General sent Tokyo police, armed with short swords, to rout the sit-downers, after issuing a warning: "Physical violence [by] undisciplined elements will not be permitted...
When the first team went out, the score stood at 5 to 0 in favor of the Crimson and the game was in danger of turning into a rout. The second string played all the rest of the game except for a few minutes in the third quarter when the Varsity came in and scored the final two Crimson goals...
There was still a chance that the Senate would restore to OPA the opportunity to liquidate itself gracefully, retire speedily but in good order from inflexible control-a compromise between rout and a last-ditch stand...
...capricious basketball season came to a close, a capricious team wavered into preeminence. Wyoming and Notre Dame, early-season powerhouses, had blown their fuses. Now N.Y.U., with theatrical laterally wins over St. John's (58-54) and Temple (59-57) and a rout of Baylor (72-57), had emerged as the nation's best...
...wild rout that followed the battle, Brady reached Washington with his duster begrimed and his straw hat limp with sweat. But in his negative box were the first of his series of great war photographs. As soon as the plates were developed, he exhibited them in his Washington gallery. Their success was instantaneous. Wrote Humphrey's Journal: "The public is indebted to Brady of Broadway for his excellent views of grim-visaged war. . . . His are the only records of the fight at Bull Run. . . . Brady has shown more pluck than many of the officers and soldiers who were...