Word: tartaric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's usual custom has been to schedule a breather game the week before the Yale engagement, but this year the Harlowmen are almost sure to strike a Tartar in the well-drilled Brown Bears from Providence. Despite the banner showing of the Crimson eleven at Philadelphia, it will not be much better than an even money choice this Saturday...
...hereditary leadership of the sect was bequeathed by a doting old woman to her lover, Peter Vasilivich Verigin, who had "the body of a Greek god, the face of a Tartar noble, and the pose of a martyred Christ." Verigin publicly insisted, "I am only one of the brothers, a humble slave of God. . . ." But to many Dukhobors he was the Kristos, to most he was the unquestioned dictator, and to the Russian Government he was a nuisance. Exiled to the province of Archangel, Verigin discovered at second hand the philosophy of Count...
...Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! . . . you Tartar of Tartary...
...sport of kings as practiced by Hollywood's cinemoguls at worst resembles mounted croquet, at best an Indian raid from a western thriller or the flight of a Tartar tribe. Now & then man and beast roll in the dust, riders run wild-eyed after their mounts...
Coach Hal Ulen's powerful tank team may run into a tartar tomorrow evening when it journeys to Springfield to do battle with the Gymnast natators at eight o'clock...