Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese were near, the winters were long and old Jews remembered it as Russia's Devil's Island whither the Tsars sent Jews and terrorists before the Revolution. Soon European Jews heard the rumor that on the day Biro-Bidjan was declared a Jewish territory a Siberian tiger ate the only policeman in the region...
...ancient Europe. Because he saw a vision he felt the people could not perish. In this spirit he sought to make a peace with the aid of a politician who had received his mandate from the people on the platform of "Hang the Kaiser" and a statesman called the "Tiger." Before the bitterness and diplomacy of these men the dream shriveled, concession followed concession, the concert of the nations lapsed into dissonance, and the dreamer returned to the repudiation of his own people. It was a dreary peace. Perhaps the gayest note was at the signing when for the first...
...eating has been proved against the mako, but fishermen who have fearfully watched its great, jagged teeth snap their oars, rip off their rudders and crunch their boats' sides would rather not make the test. Fisherman Grey puts mako fishing in a class with tiger and elephant hunting for thrill and danger. Largest game fish ever caught with rod & reel was Zane Grey's 1,040-lb. marlin. But the mako is the only shark which will take fast-moving bait, and at leaping, it is unsurpassed. Tarpon and sailfish also leap clear of the water...
...Freshman trio which was host to the Princeton team at the Union, were completely subdued under the strong Tiger affirmative, and the decision of the judges Paul Reardon '32, Edward H. Hickey '33, and Donal M. Sullivan '33, chairman of the evening, was two to one in favor of the visitors. The negative Harvard team, which opposed Princeton, was made up of Harold W. Danser, Jr., Thomas W. Stephenson, and Hubert H. Nexon...
...Harvard Varsity tennis team's hopes for an undefeated record and an unchallenged claim to eastern tennis supremacy were blasted yesterday afternoon, when a 6-3 drubbing was administered to them by a fighting team of Princeton Tigers. The Crimson team was seriously handicapped by the fact that Sandy Davenport, stellar number one man, was suffering from an arm injury which prevented him from offering more than a slight resistance to Thomas D. Flynn, Tiger star, who defeated him 6-0, 6-2. The Varsity will meet Dartmouth this afternoon at 2 o'clock on the Divinity courts, while...