Word: stay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four victories and no defeats was the record made by the Harvard tennis team during the past week on its southern stay at Norfolk, Virgina. Two of the matches were won by clean sweeps while victory in the other matches came by scores...
Friday found the Harvard team up against Virginia University which furnished the stiffest opposition of the entire stay but Coach Cowle's men managed to eke out a 5 to 4 victory in a series of matches in which much sparkling tennis was displayed. The two teams divided the singles matches and it was Harvard's 2 to 1 edge in the doubles that gave them victory. The feature matches were Whitbeck's defeat by C. Alphonso Smith, national star and Ingraham's three set victory over Taylor...
...first, in 1914, was when he refused to follow the French government fleeing to Bordeaux before the German advance. Cannily he declaimed: "The American flag will stay over the American embassy and I will stay with it. There are times when a dead ambassador is of more value than a live...
After the Gould trio had landed among the icy mountains, pegged down their plane and set up their tent, a fierce wind rose from the north. Their indicator showed it roaring 85 m. p. h. The wind grew stronger. The plane bobbed up and down against its stay ropes. Stronger the wind. Gould, holding a rope, "was blown straight out like a flag." The men hugged the ice, dug knives into it to keep from blowing away. "The wind bellowed and shrieked at us. Pieces of snow, big lumps, began to hit us. They were pieces of packed snow from...
...tour is being made under the auspices of the Young Australia League and is personally conducted by Major J. J. Simons, founder and honorary director of the league. Arriving in Boston on Monday, after a week's stay in New York, the boys, ranging in age from 14 to 18 years, were received at the State House by Governor Allen, and since then various entertainment's have been given in their honor. They are in Boston as guests of the Rotary Club...