Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great many Princeton boys were dancing attendance on the lovely girls, but when it came time to go home, it seemed that one of the Tiger boys had already retired--to a young lady's boudoir whence he was routed by a righteous guardian of the school's morals...
...netting guarding the top. The lights were lowered a sound like thunder rumbled and syn thetic lightning glimmered. A big, heavy maned lion loped from the runway into the cage, slithered along an upward-sloping row of pedestals until he was crouched on the highest one. Two tigers came in and took their places beside him. Ten or twelve more beasts entered. While some of these were still milling around on the cage floor, Clyde Beatty, holding a blank-loaded pistol and a steel-bolted chair in his left hand and a whip in his right jumped into the cage...
Darting, posing, shooting, the trainer made a bevy of his charges change pedestals. He fought off a lion that seemed to have pinned him against the bars. Every now and then a lion took a swipe at a tiger-or vice versa. Then the whiplash flicked over. The trainer swaggered up to a pedestaled tiger, thrust the chair at its open jaws. The animal knocked the chair aside. Soon the same tiger was obediently rolling itself along on top of a large cylinder. The trainer next made a lion sit up with its paws upraised like a begging...
...been in college. Biggest feat so far for this crack wrestler occured curlier in the season when he came up against Charlie Tell, Princeton's massive all-American football player. Though he had a weight advantage of some 45 pounds, a height advantage of five inches, the huge Tiger is more brute strength than skill and agility, and the 1000 people who came to see the meet watched the Crimson lad win an exciting match in overtime, a match in which feeling run so high that for a moment the two grapplers forgot it was wrestling and not boxing that...
...that the last guest has left Cambridge, now that the Tiger and the Bulldog have returned to their haunts, it is meet to take stock of the second Conference on Public Affairs. To the members of the faculty who participated we had hoped some benefit would accrue. To the guests who came we had hoped the discussion would be, if not useful, at any rate interesting. In each case comments indicate that our hopes were fulfilled...