Word: tribes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight innings CRIMSON runners could make no progress on the sodden base paths of the Soldiers Field diamond. Then the storm broke. CRIMSON fury burst forth with all the tremendous energy of a roused Titan tearing in shreds the bond cast about him by the hands of a pigmy tribe. It even went back and gathered force from the disappointing (though courteous) tie played with the Princetonian cohorts some week or more...
Hanover, N. H., May 13.--Coach Harry Hillman has chosen a squad of 27 men to face the Crimson runners in the Stadium at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Before leaving the camp of the Hanover tribe, the Dartmouth mentor said that he favored the Harvard team, but that the encounter would be very close...
Along dirt roads from Kansas City to Lawrence, Kan., a pair of sandals went clump-hua-clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . In the sandals were the red feet of Jose Torres of the Tarahumara tribe of Chihuahua, Mexico, who last week ran this 51 miles in 6 hr. 46 min. 41 sec. (a speed of about 8 m. p. h). In regulation track shoes, Purcell Kane, an Apache of Haskell Institute, finished second. Three other Indians also ran. Jose Torres, as everyone knows, recently covered 89.4 miles of concrete road in 14 hr. 53 min. (TIME, April...
...attentively in mind last week. One enters, climbs a neat, unvarnished stair, and is stopped by two rugged guards in black-braided baggy white trousers, red fezzes, pirate sashes. Their pay is $12 a month. Firearms are by Mauser and Anfaldo. These ornate banditti are mountaineers of the tribe of Mati, and they guard their tribal Chief, Ahmed Bey Zogu, who is nominally President and actually Dictator of Albania...
...Curtis. (Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas. His great grandmother was the daughter of White Plume, chief of the Kaw tribe...