Word: tartaric
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Ohio State. Last year Minnesota nearly caught a tartar in Ohio State. This year Coach Bierman may consider himself lucky that he did not schedule the Buckeyes. They have humbled three reputable opponents so far: Missouri (12-to-7), Southern California (33-to-0), Purdue...
...Russia was too big. And the Tartars were too cruel. They spent their whole time in expensive punitive expeditions. The Russians learned Tartar devices, eventually beat them...
...they staged a sit-down strike in the Senate Office Building corridors before the door of bantam, spitfire Carter Glass of Virginia, who is ready to declare war on Hitler any time. The Mothers' leader, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Dilling (author of The Red Network), mother of two, called Tartar Carter, father of four, "an overage destroyer of American youth." Persimmony Veteran Glass invited the G-Men to investigate the Mothers, added tartly: "It would be pertinent to inquire whether they are mothers. For the sake of the race, I devoutly hope...
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...