Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growing despondency of leader in the Phillips Brooks House has at length turned to a forum as the logical means of curing the apathy that fogs undergraduate interest and understanding in the House. Two leading questions have been set to bring about the discussion that may solve the present difficulty...
Horween's next visit to Cambridge will probably be on the occasion of the banquet which the Harvard Club of Boston is anxious to tender this year's Crimson team. The date for this affair has not been set and awaits such a time when the head coach can arrange to be present with the team...
...taking nine prizes altogether. Jean Regan rode The Flirt over ten jumps without touching the top-bar on any one. Seventy thousand people, more than had ever done so before, attended the horse show; one of them was Senor Aime F. Tschiffely, who three years and four months ago set out from the Argentine to ride to the U. S.; Peter Manning, the greatest trotting horse in the world, slapped around the ring pulling a featherweight two-wheel sulky; and the German Army team rode and jumped better than all others...
Another old fighter, Johnny Dundee, set out to make a comeback. His real name is Joseph Carrora; he is 35; a year ago he was smashed by Tony Canzoneri. In Brooklyn last week he hooked and dodged, bounced in from the ropes, stepped away from Gaston Charles; in the last three rounds, he punched the surprised French man. The crowd cheered when Dundee was awarded the victory which would have been even more romantic had it been better deserved...
...written in the Hollywood ritual that no evening is so sacred as the opening night of a potent picture. In soft purring motors come the stars through the bracing California evening. The blocks about the theatre are set with huge searchlights sweeping heaven. Fierce cordons of police force order in the crowds, thousands of common folk, many of whom have waited at vantage points since afternoon to see the gods descend from their chariots and pass nobly through the gates. Radio stations spread each new arrival's name across the miles of night. Stars cry their greeting through the microphone...