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...invading nine has played erratically this spring and it is difficult to forecast just how much opposition they will offer the Crimson players today. The visitors have a strong pitching staff and if they can play in top form, they can put up a stubborn resistance. The chief weakness of the Providence aggregation...
Money and men poured after the waters into the Mississippi basin. State militia went into action, forcing stubborn and panicky people to leave their homes. Secretary Hoover established an executive base at Memphis. All around raged tragedy, havoc, cosmic comedy...
...same finish, and also by a remarkable fitness for the various' parts. Each actor and actress is adapted to the peculiar role he or she plays, not only physically, but even, it would seem, in natural temperament. Edward Fielding as the colonel, has the impressive bearing, the stubborn will, and the military self-righteousness of the typical Prussian officer as if he had spent his entire life in the Kaiser's army. The realism of this old gentleman's character may be somewhat difficult for the American of today to grasp. Gis concept of absolute paternal rule, his narrow, strict...
Chang, victorious traitor, quickly moved a division of his troops into Shanghai, sent his main army to reinforce the troops of Sun which had continued all the while their stubborn resistance to the Nationalist attack upon Shanghai...
...this country the former should have means of keeping in closer touch with each other. An underground telephone service between Cambridge and Chicago, for instance might prove of great use in bringing about that coordination of criminals, which is now so sadly lacking and which stands as a stubborn obstacle in the way of unified crime. We even go so far as to indorse such a service and to offer our plans for the opening ceremonial call, The underground connection having been established we set a definite time on such and such a day for the official inauguration...