Word: skirmish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evil fortune stayed skulking behind the great curtains of the woods until after Gentleman Johnny had forced the Rebel army to evacuate Fort Ticonderoga. After that came the first skirmish at Saratoga, in which Burgoyne won a few downy feathers for his hat; then trouble ran towards him with a war whoop. Due largely to the idiotic incompetence of Lord George Germain, who was sending orders from England, Burgoyne lost the battle of Saratoga. In this, one of the world's fifteen decisive battles, the rocket of British victory broke and splintered down in a bright shower of speeches, excuses...
That there will be no further cut in the University crew squad until after a race which will be held in the basin to morrow afternoon was announced last night. In an informal skirmish upstream yesterday crew X bested crews Y and Z but because of the curves and the generally unfavorable racing conditions which exist upstream the race was not a fair determination of their comparative strengths. The letters X. Y. and Z have been substituted for the letters A, B, and C which distinguish the crewes on squad A until this week...
...month with the temperament of mild Richard Halton (Wallace Eddinger) before risking another matrimonial venture. The Duke of Bristol (Hugh Wakefield) is more of an opportunist. He sets his suave cap for immediate acquisition of Helen Hayle (Kathlene MacDonell), heiress and best friend of the canny widow. After a skirmish of wits, with no insults barred, provided only that they be smooth-edged as befits Mrs. Wislack's Scottish mansion, the Duke and Heiress are left to their own dangerous company, while the less keen, more pleasant couple enter holy matrimony. The cast is the last word in sophisticated...
Stewart, substituting for McNear in the Princeton skirmish line, got the ball near midfield in the third period, and dodging several Crimson defense men, dribbled the spheroid down the sideline, and suddenly sent a aizzling shot at an acute angle that skidded past Thomas and into the Harvard not for the second Tiger score. Stewart later, in the fourth quarter, scored form a free kick, after Crooks had fouled by failing on the ball...
...President Roosevelt made him Secretary of State. Then after a bitter skirmish with William Randolph Hearst,† Mr. Root entered his international era. From Venezuela to the Newfoundland fisheries, from the Pan-American Conference to the Hague Court, this shrewd lawyer became the angel of arbitration. He was made head of the Carnegie Endowment, an organization with an income of $10,000,000 to spend for international peace. In 1912 he won the Nobel Peace Prize...