Word: skirmishes
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...waiters crew is preparing with their borrowed Yale oars for their annual skirmish with the Eli tray-handlers on the upper stretches of the Thames next Wednesday or Thursday afternoon. So far as is known, there has been no challenge made or accepted as yet, but crew devotees are confident that the traditional affair will take place...
...Tufts aggregation started scoring in the second inning, when they drove two runs across in consecutive hits. This batting skirmish was repeated in the fourth and seventh frames, when the Tufts nine scored four runs in each frame...
...lady and the gamekeeper on her husband's estate: all details were given, all Anglo-Saxon unprintable words were printed. Author Lawrence defended his book, attacked the literary pirates who had stolen it, in a preface (published separately last year in the U. S. by Random House), My Skirmish with Jolly Roger. Now he pursues the subject further, in a booklet called Pornography and Obscenity...
Harvard's hockey forces have successfully negotiated the next to last hurdle of their present campaign. They did this Saturday when they shut out the Big Green sextet, 4 to 0, to sweep the series with the Hanoverians. Now, except for a University club skirmish, only the high hurdle, the Yale series, remains...
Refreshed by a month-long armistice, Senate warriors last week climbed doggedly back into their trenches to finish the Tariff War. They swung into action with a skirmish on wool. The coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans wilted badly under the pressure of sectional interests. The wool rates went up, but not before Joseph R. Grundy, longtime tariff lobbyist, now Senator from Pennsylvania, had startled his comrades-in-arms with a display of tariff chivalry. A wool yarn manufacturer himself, he announced on the vote (35-to-29) which increased the duty on this commodity: "I am interested...